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Ranked Health: Curated Health Apps & Devices

Ranked Health: Curated Health Apps & Devices

Health app rankings by clinicians, researchers, & patients

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From the Ranked Health website: 

RANKED Health is a project run by the Hacking Medicine Institute (HMi), a non-profit organization spun out of MIT’s Hacking Medicine program. This project is designed to review and rank healthcare focused applications, providing independent, unbiased and accurate information to accelerate patient and provider adoption of clinically proven and high-quality digital health solutions. In addition to identifying best-in-class healthcare applications for better health monitoring and disease management, RANKED Health also helps uncover unsafe and ineffective apps on the market.

Understanding Mobile Apps

Understanding Mobile Apps

Mobile App education from the Federal Trade Commission

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From the Federal Trade Commission website:

If you have a smart phone or other mobile device, you probably use apps – to play games, get turn-by-turn directions, access news, books, weather, and more. Easy to download and often free, mobile apps can be so much fun and so convenient that you might download them without thinking about some key considerations: how they’re paid for, what information they may gather from your device, or who gets that information.

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