Prescribing to mobile health apps

Healthcare in the mobile age is fast turning into a hot topic with the availability of numerous health and fitness apps, across various platforms like iOS, Android and BlackBerry. 88 percent doctors completely support patients keeping a watch on their health at home using mobile apps when it comes to watch out one’s weight, blood sugar and for other vital signs. People today are more aware and are hungry for more authentic information which is related to us Indians.” Luke Coutinho, Nutritionist and Fitness Consultant and also the author of Eat Smart, Move More, Sleep Right says, “There are good apps and complicated ones,,i truly believe that the simpler you keep it the more user friendly it is,,health mobile apps if made well with much thought can actually help an individual to get healthy,,,i have a lot of clients who use such apps and swear by it,,they can motivate, inspire, help plan goals and give reports on performance.” Luke doesn’t mind suggesting apps to his clients and according to him some good apps, include Slimkicker,Mapmyfitness and calorietracker. Many people use them coz these apps link to twitter and FB and becomes more of a “showing off” platform for people…if used well and consistently it can provide results, it can be a great motivator and a timely reminder for tips and advice, it’s like a tool that one can leverage to get better results, in health and fitness tracking of progress, improvement and consistency is key and a great app can help you achieve just that.” We think mobile apps have their own set of pros and cons. We’ve listed out five helpful health apps CalorieCounter - Android, Blackberry, iOS This calorie counter and diet tracker by MyFitnessPal is a stable and user friendly mobile application for smartphones.