Google Trends data highlights medical and healt...
Interest in medical apps is experiencing strong growth according to a Google Trends analysis in a an emerging technology only five years old.
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FDA Device Surveillance to Tap App
The FDA is creating a largely automated surveillance system to monitor safety of high-risk medical devices, and has authorized a cellphone app for doctors to simplify reporting deaths and injuries to the agency.
Seth Bilazarian, MD's curator insight,
April 24, 2013 4:25 PM
"There's an app for that." Physicians are often criticized for not doing a better job reporting adverse events and this is largely because the method for reporting to the FDA has been burdensome and difficult. An easy to use reporting strategy from a smartphone will increase my reporting dramatically. The speed of reporting and analysis by FDA for actionable items should be significantly shortened.
Seth Bilazarian, MD's comment,
April 24, 2013 4:27 PM
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key hot word
The trend for keyword medical app search only emerged in 2007 but has had a steady consistent rise in search interest. For comparison purposes, weight loss app and diabetes app show similar increases but are less frequently searched than the general term medical app.
Pharma need to recognize medical apps are HOT
medical app means a e detailing app for Pharma