---
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://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.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://www.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://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2010/Mobile-Health-2010.aspx)and [Health Topics](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2011/HealthTopics.aspx).