Article Excerpt: Health apps like MyFitnessPal are turning smartphones and tablets into exercise aids, blood pressure monitors and even devices that transmit an electrocardiogram. But in an environment that Ben Chodor from Happtique refers to as “the Wild West”, the explosion of health apps is way ahead of tests to determine which ones work. Many unresolved questions also still exist around the data collected by medical apps, including whether the information patients collect becomes part of their medical record, how to ensure validity of the data, and what insurance will cover.
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Article Source: NPR