{"id":272,"date":"2016-12-15T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=272"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:43","slug":"health-apps-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/15\/health-apps-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Health apps #fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-273 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015-205x205.jpg\" alt=\"Health application on a smartphone.\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015-205x205.jpg 205w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>A study published this month in the journal <em>Health Affairs<\/em> found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2016\/12\/05\/health\/ap-us-med-health-apps.html?ref=aponline\">problems with many smartphone health apps<\/a>. Most concerning was what happened (or didn&#8217;t happen) with information that should have drawn warnings from the app\u2014like selecting &#8220;yes&#8221; when the app asked if the user was feeling suicidal, or entering extremely abnormal levels for blood sugar levels. Only 28 of 121 apps responded appropriately to such red-flag information, researchers said. Health apps &#8220;should have some common-sense standards&#8221; says lead author <strong>Karandeep Singh<\/strong>, assistant professor of learning health sciences and of medicine at the medical school. &#8220;The vast majority of apps do not have any kind of response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study published this month in the journal Health Affairs found problems with many smartphone health apps. Most concerning was what happened (or didn&#8217;t happen) with information that should have drawn warnings from the app\u2014like selecting &#8220;yes&#8221; when the app asked if the user was feeling suicidal, or entering extremely abnormal levels for blood sugar levels. Only 28\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/15\/health-apps-fail\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,70,51],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-health","tag-medical"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",500,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015-205x205.jpg",205,205,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",500,500,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",500,500,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",500,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",500,500,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",42,42,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",300,300,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",500,500,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_72136175_s-2015.jpg",250,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A study published this month in the journal Health Affairs found problems with many smartphone health apps. Most concerning was what happened (or didn&#8217;t happen) with information that should have drawn warnings from the app\u2014like selecting &#8220;yes&#8221; when the app asked if the user was feeling suicidal, or entering extremely abnormal levels for blood sugar&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}