Phone Apps for Patients With Diabetes

Among approximately 280 commercially available mobile phone apps for self-management of diabetes, only 11 had been studied for effectiveness, and only 5 of those were associated with clinically significant improvement in blood glucose control as measured by hemoglobin A1c tests, according to a recentreport by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research