---
"title": "Mobile Health"
"description": "Susannah Fox will participate in the first working meeting of the Open mHealth Public-Private Partnership in Washington, DC."
"date": "2011-04-14"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Susannah Fox"
    "job_title": "Former Researcher"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/susannah-fox/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/2011/04/14/mobile-health/"
"categories":
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Healthcare Online"
  - "Medicine & Health"
  - "Mobile"
  - "Online Search"
---

# Mobile Health

Susannah Fox will participate in the first working meeting of the [Open mHealth Public-Private Partnership ](http://openmhealth.org/events/2011-working-meeting)in Washington, DC, on April 14-15, 2011.

Susannah will provide context for the discussion, including Pew Internet’s finding that more than 8 in 10 U.S. adults own a cell phone and 6 in 10 go online wirelessly with a laptop or mobile device. Certain demographic groups are more likely than others to use their phones to gather health information:

![Demographics: Cell phone users](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/media/Infographics/Report%20Infographics/2011/5%20-%20Health%20Topics/05%20Cell%20phone.png)

In addition, cell phone users between 18 and 29 years old are more likely than older cell owners to use mobile health apps: 15% do so, compared with 8% of cell users ages 30-49, for example. African American cell phone owners are more likely than other groups to use such apps: 15% do so, compared with 7% of white and 11% of Latino cell phone users.

For more information on these trends, please see [Mobile Health 2010 ](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/Reports/2010/Mobile-Health-2010.aspx)and [Health Topics](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/Reports/2011/HealthTopics.aspx).