Experts in the medical and pharmaceutical management spaces have studied the issue of health care apps as the number of them have grown, and learned that the more specific an app is, the better.
A cliché by now, “there’s an app for that” has crept into every aspect of the modern world, including the most sensitive aspects of our lives, so it’s no surprise that workers’ compensation providers and services are utilizing the wide array of health app options to better serve insureds and injured workers.
But despite the prevalence, quantifiable benefits are harder to come by. Experts in the medical and pharmaceutical management spaces have studied the issue as it has grown and learned that the more specific an app is, the better.
The number of digital health apps available to consumers accelerated during and since the COVID-19 pandemic, barreling past the 350,000 mark in 2021, according to a market report from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
The majority of these apps are designed to track fitness or nutrition goals and are not necessarily useful for workers’…
