Article Excerpt: As mobile devices become more popular mobile health applications (mHealth apps) present opportunities to improve health and wellness. However, poorly designed mHealth apps can contribute to the challenges many people have understanding and acting on health information—challenges that are exacerbated for users with low health literacy. The authors of this discussion paper call for app developers to build “health literate apps” that apply usability and health literacy strategies throughout the development process. The paper offers a set of strategies for developers and a case study to demonstrate how the strategies can be effectively applied in the development process.
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Article Source: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies