Washington Post: Happtique helps doctors prescribe apps to patients
Doctors may soon be prescribing smartphone apps to their patients along with their medication.
There are thousands of health-related apps available for download today on smartphones and tablets (by some estimates there could be as many as 40,000, though no formal count has been done). These apps are as varied as programs that make it easy to count calories, monitor diabetes, or check heart rates.
The sheer number of what are known as mHealth apps can pose a challenge for health practitioners, who often don’t have time to keep up with the fast-evolving field.
Enter Happtique. The New York-based enterprise, a subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association, is launching a kind of curated app pharmacy featuring programs it has vetted to meet certain standards.