The impact of recent health reform efforts are far-reaching, with perhaps one of the biggest shifts occurring in the convergence of clinical care delivery and consumer health. Additional investigations into understanding the impact of synergistic features, incentives, social media, and gamification are also warranted to identify possible future trends. In the future, studies should focus on one category in the app store, specific diseases, or desired behavior change, and methods should include measuring the quality of each feature, both through manual assessment and evaluation of user reviews. Further investigation into mHealth app features is worthwhile given the inability of the most common features to explain a large portion of an app’s rating. Although tracking is a core function of most health apps, this feature may detract from a user’s experience when not executed properly. Of the 5 reaching statistical significance, plan or orders, export of data, usability, and cost contributed positively to a user’s rating, while the tracker feature detracted from it.Ĭonclusions: These findings suggest that users appreciate features that save time over current methods and identify an app as valuable when it is simple and intuitive to use, provides specific instructions to better manage a condition, and shares data with designated individuals. Results: Analysis of these 12 features explained 9.3% ( R 2=.093 n=234, P<.001) of the variation in an app’s rating, with only 5 reaching statistical significance. Regression analysis was used to determine which, if any, contributed positively to a user’s rating of the app. Methods: A collection of 234 apps associated with reputable health organizations found in the medical, health, and fitness categories of the Apple iTunes store and Google Play marketplace was assessed manually for the presence of 12 app features and characteristics. Objectives: The aim of this paper is to identify the features and characteristics most-valued by patient-consumers (“users”) that contribute positively to the rating of an app. JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology 31 articlesĮmail: The explosion of mobile phones with app capabilities coupled with increased expectations of the patient-consumers’ role in managing their care presents a unique opportunity to use mobile health (mHealth) apps.JMIR Biomedical Engineering 66 articles.Journal of Participatory Medicine 76 articles. ![]() JMIR Perioperative Medicine 86 articles.JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies 189 articles. ![]()
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