Mobile App in Health: improving user awareness regarding own health

Knowledge is more and more a strategic resource for health organizations while
information & communication technology earns an important role for sharing
knowledge and informations among people in and out organizations. These conditions
satisfy specific demands related to the new emerging information needs, asking for a
change in relationships and effective communication. so, the medicine apps represent
an emerging and rapidly developing framework for health system, able to contribute to
its quality and efficiency. the same u.s. supervisory authority activated in the last years
an appropriate study in order to control the medical applications downloaded directly
through mobile devices and able to influence health performance. this work - with a
mixed approach - presents the results of the exploratory and descriptive studies in
order to make clear the general dynamics and functionality of the medicine category
apps.