The promise and peril of mobile health applications for diabetes and endocrinology.
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...This is perhaps surprising, as health promotion and public health researchers now pay considerable attention to the potential of the internet as a tool to diffuse health-related information (Chew and Eysenbach, 2010; Ritterband and Tate, 2009; Murray et al., 2009; Scanfeld et al., 2010; Signorini et al., 2011) , employing smart phones and other mobile technologies in preventative interventions (Abroms et al., 2013; Eng and Lee, 2013; Free et al., 2013; Steinhubl et al., 2015) ....
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...There has been a call for study of health apps [33-35], due to their widespread use and the absence of guidelines for determining their adherence to standard practices....
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...At the moment, the input of the measured blood glucose values occurs manually in most of the cases, as earlier findings of Eng et al [5] and Chomutare et al [6] confirm....
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...At the moment, the input of the measured blood glucose values occurs manually in most of the cases, as earlier findings of Eng et al [5] and Chomutare et al [6] confirm....
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...Until now, just a few reviews of diabetes apps had been conducted [3,5,6,16]....
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...At the same time, many apps offered similar functionalities, mostly a documentation function, which is consistent with earlier findings of Martínez-Pérez et al [3], Eng et al [5], Chomutare et al [6], and Demidowich et al [16]....
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...Within the health care sector, apps are supporting the management of illnesses, thereby promoting health awareness and well-being [3-5]....
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...They concluded that there was evidence for the effectiveness of text messaging interventions for increasing adherence in antiretroviral therapy and smoking cessation studies, but that results were not consistent for other areas (11)....
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...This could have adverse health consequences, as outlined by a recent study of dermatologic apps for detecting suspicious skin lesions (28)....
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...This includes applications (which we will refer to as ‘apps’ hereafter) that run on mobile phones, sensors that track vital signs and health activities, and cloud-based computing systems (4, 5)....
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