The Promise and Peril of Mobile Health Applications for Diabetes and Endocrinology

We are in the midst of what some have called a “mobile health revolution”. Medical applications (“apps”) for mobile phones are proliferating in the marketplace and clinicians are likely encountering patients with questions about the medical value of these apps. We conducted a review of medical apps focused on endocrine disease.

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