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Reviewing Mobile Apps to Control Heart Rate in Literature and Virtual Stores

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Abstract

Background

Information and communications technologies are transforming our social interactions and life-styles. One of the most promising applications of information technology is healthcare and wellness management that characterized by early detection of conditions, prevention, and long-term healthcare management.

Objective

The main purpose of this document is to do a study, first about the actual literature about mobile phone applications to measure and control heart-rate and second a study about these applications themselves, analyzing the different app stores more popular nowadays, Google Play Store and iTunes (for Android and iOS devices respectively).

Methods

The Web portals and databases that were used to perform the searches are IEEE Xplore, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Springer, ResearchGate, Science Direct and Scopus, taking into account the date of publication from 2010 to 2018, publications in English and Spanish.

Results

40 relevant papers have been found related to mobile phone apps to measure and control heart rate. The results show that of a total of 400 applications found 61.25% of them are in the Play Store (Android systems) and the remaining 38.75% were found in the iTunes Store (iOS systems).

Conclusions

From the review of the research articles analyzed, it can be said that the most applications found are for Android devices. They occupy 76.53% of the world mobile phone market, while iOS only owns 18.97%.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been partially supported by European Commission and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism under the project AAL-20125036 named “Wetake Care: ICT- based Solution for (Self-) Management of Daily Living”.

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  1. Department of Signal Theory and Communications, and Telematics Engineering, University of Valladolid, Paseo de Belén, 15, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    Javier Salvador García, Susel Góngora Alonso, Isabel de la Torre Díez & Miguel López Coronado

  2. University of Deusto, Avenida de las Universidades 24, 48007, Bilbao, Spain

    Begoña Garcia-Zapirain & Cristiane Castillo

  3. Distance University of Madrid, Carretera de La Coruña, KM.38, 500, 28400, Collado Villalba, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Cabo Salvador

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García, J.S., Alonso, S.G., de la Torre Díez, I. et al. Reviewing Mobile Apps to Control Heart Rate in Literature and Virtual Stores. J Med Syst 43, 80 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1202-z

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