Health Apps. Are they helpful or not?

 

 

 

 According to the article,Are Health Apps Harmful or Helpful? Experts Debate by Christopher Wanjek, health apps are ubiquitous, but do they do more harm than good? Some doctors are beginning to ask whether these self-monitoring applications are useless: or even dangerous. Health apps have a range of goals: some simply encourage people to adopt healthy behaviors, while others actually help people manage conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure. There are more than 100,000 such apps available. If there is any perceived incongruity in monitoring — a skipped heart beat, a momentary and natural dip or rise in blood pressure, or a variation in oxygen levels — can lead people to feel unnecessary anxiety and pursue unneeded medical tests.