Congratulations to Dr Fan Shaojing on being selected as 2024 ACM Health Best Paper Award:
“A Comprehensive Picture of Factors Affecting User Willingness to Use Mobile Health Applications”
Mobile health (mHealth) applications play an increasingly important role in preventive healthcare and in reducing pressure on healthcare systems. This study examines the factors influencing user acceptance of mHealth apps and the underlying structure shaping users’ willingness to adopt them. Using an online factorial survey with vignettes, data were collected from 1,669 participants across eight countries spanning four continents. Structural equation modeling was applied to assess the combined effects of multiple factors. The results show that digital literacy is the strongest predictor of willingness to use mHealth apps, followed by users’ habits of sharing personal information online, while privacy concerns have a comparatively weak effect. Demographic factors, including country of residence, age, ethnicity, and education, further moderate these relationships. These findings offer practical implications for app designers, healthcare practitioners, and policymakers, highlighting the importance of promoting digital literacy and strengthening data governance to support broader adoption of mHealth applications.
ACM Health:
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (ACM HEALTH) is a premier, top-tier, peer-reviewed journal published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. It is widely regarded as a preeminent and authoritative venue for high-impact research at the intersection of computer science, electrical engineering, health informatics, and clinical practice. With an impact factor of approximately 8.0 (2025), the journal demonstrates strong scholarly influence and a high citation rate within the research community. ACM HEALTH is consistently ranked in the First Quartile (Q1) in both Computer Science (Information Systems) and Medical Informatics, including 3rd out of 48 journals in Medical Informatics in 2025, underscoring its leadership across both technical and clinical domains. In addition, ACM HEALTH is known for its rigorous peer-review process and exceptional selectivity, publishing only top-tier work that meets the highest standards of technical rigor, clinical relevance, and societal impact.