At the Mobile World Congress 2014, which took place last week in Barcelona, Spain, it was made clear that m-Health applications have demonstrated their usefulness in the field of healthcare.
Applications for medical appointments, services developed by health sector insurers and medication reference guides were the apps chosen most by users.
According to the website App Annie, which posts statistics and rankings of mobile applications, in Spain the ten most popular apps for iOS and Android devices are:
In both Spain and Latin America, pharmacology reference guides are one of users’ most popular resources.
Vademecum Mobile 2.0, for example, has the largest number of downloads in Mexico, Chile and Colombia, and reached first place in the medical applications category throughout the last twelve months in Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Peru.
