Abstract
Mobile Health applications (mHealth apps) have become integrated into the field of consumer health informatics as tools that maintain a patient-centered model of health care by allowing consumers to monitor their health related problems, understand specific medical conditions and attain personal fitness goals. However, mHealth apps may comprise significant risks to the privacy and security of consumer's protected health information. The aim of this project is to investigate the strengths and limitations of data privacy and security in the most popular mHealth apps on the market. This project involves a systematic literature review and a comparative analysis of the 20 most popular mHealth apps to identify a set of risk and safe features that can assist consumers in the selection of mHealth apps and provide guidelines for the development of mHealth apps with appropriate security and privacy measures.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2014 |
| Place of Publication | Auckland |
| Publisher | ACIS |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781927184264 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2014 |
| Event | 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2014 - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 8 Dec 2014 → 10 Dec 2014 |
Other
| Other | 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2014 |
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| Country/Territory | New Zealand |
| City | Auckland |
| Period | 8/12/14 → 10/12/14 |