The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 2 (Apr 2014) | Page 45

Quality Assurance in the Age of Mobile Healthcare
actually been through proper evidence-based software testing.
According to Shivani Goyal, a researcher at the Centre for
Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto:

P

eople have to be cognizant of the fact that there are
a mixture of people who are making these Apps.
I would caution people going onto the app store
to do research to see where the Apps are coming
from, who is designing them, and read reviews about their
functions.
According to a recent report1 by the MS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, “Patient Apps for Improved Healthcare: From Novelty to Mainstream”, a vast majority of the
mHealth applications have limited function. The study also
indicates that most applications aren’t downloaded that often
and