Diabetes apps should have seven different elements in them. These are:
- Personalization
- Feedback
- Feature Coverage
- Integration and interoperability
- Motivational system
- Ease of data input
- Design & user experience
Unfortunately today apps fall short of these expectations. How do we know this? A recent study on the mHealth app market: Diabetes App Market Report 2014 shows this issue.
From that study:
“Mobile apps can support the daily management of diabetes by supporting behavior changes, facilitating communication and easing the hassle of keeping track of all relevant parameters that have an influence on the disease. However, only a few apps utilize their potential. Most of the apps are too narrow in their functionality or too technical. To become a daily companion, diabetes apps must be individualized and fun to work with. They have to make life easier especially by automating the collection and sharing of data.”
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