Table 1.
General information on the mobile health apps included in the reviewa.
| App name in English | Target market | Platform | Size (MB) | Cost per month, RMBb (USD) | Release date | Downloads, nc | Mean user rating | |
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| MCDEX mobile | Health care professionals | iOS & Android | 13.06 | 89 (13.97) | 3/5/2015 | 11,193 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
| Medication Assistant by DXY | Health care professionals | iOS & Android | 169.16 | 30 (4.71) | 11/17/2012 | 55,585,879 | 4.5 | 4.8 |
| Medication Reference | Doctors, pharmacists, and other HCPsd | iOS & Android | 334.96 | free | 7/10/2012 | —e | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Medication Assistant of People's Health | Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other HCPs | iOS & Android | 86.52 | 12 (1.88) | 6/9/2017 | 227,021 | 2.0 | 4.9 |
| Medication Guidelines | Health care professionals | Android | 2.38 | free | — | 750,760 | 1.0 | — |
| DXY | Health care professionals | iOS & Android | 262.67 | free | 1/29/2012 | 66,298,525 | 4.7 | 4.9 |
| Yi Mai Tong | Health care professionals | iOS & Android | 73.67 | free | 9/26/2013 | 8,900,870 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
aApps in Chinese app stores were searched on November 15, 2020.
bRMB: yuan renminbi.
cNumber of downloads was not available for the iOS platform.
dHCP: health care provider.
eData not available.