1. 20 percent of the online health population comments online about healthcare, and people are more likely to contribute or comment if they have a smart phone and mobile web access.
2. Next year, it’s predicted there will be 142 million mobile healthcare apps.
3. During three months at the end of last year, there was an average of 16.9 million people using mobile phones to access health information.
4. There were 60 percent of the mobile health information “seekers” who were younger than 35 years old.
5. About 26 percent of the adults in the United States used their mobile phones to access health information last year.
6. 85 percent of adults own a cell phone, and 9 percent of those people report having software apps to manage or track their health.
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