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Presenting #hcsmca’s 2-year report card. Thank you Alaina Cyr for creating yet another beautiful infographic. And don’t forget to read her commentary below and add your thoughts and interpretations. What a community!

By Alaina Cyr (@AlainaBCyr) 

It’s my pleasure to share with you #hcsmca’s 2-year report card!

Like the 6-month and 18-month report cards that came before, this infograph shows how the #hcsmca community has grown since September 29, 2010. But what I find most meaningful in this report card is how the history and identity of our community shines through between the graphs and numbers.

As I look over the familiar faces of those daring souls who’ve moderated a chat, I see representation from throughout the spectrum of healthcare. Like our community as a whole, the moderators are patients, caregivers, students, researchers, communicators, developers, nurses, doctors, representatives from medical practices, non-profit organizations and, often times, several of these at once…

In reply to the publishing of the Pew Internet Mobile Health 2012 report author Susannah Fox has shared an interesting point of view from Dave Clifford, a strategy consultant in Health IT and Science and Tech Policy, who having read the report challenged the conclusions many readers are making.

Of course this isn’t the first time someone’s suggested there’s too much hype in the mHealth app world but it’s well worth a read and gave me several further thoughts I thought it might be worth expanding on (in addition to my shared thoughts on Pew’s 2010 and 2012 Mobile Health reports):

“Since 2010, Susannah’s reporting has shown that the number of people downloading health apps onto their smartphones has remained roughly constant”

For me this highlights the importance of us understanding what is mHealth. Obviously I disagree with Pew’s definition (eg. that it’s a “health application…