Server-Focused Security Assessment of Mobile Health Apps for Popular Mobile Platforms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of mobile health (mHealth) apps is growing. Independent of the technologies used, mHealth apps bring more functionality into the hands of users. In the health context, mHealth apps play an important role in providing information and services to patients, offering health care professionals ways to monitor vital parameters or consult patients remotely. The importance of confidentiality in health care and the opaqueness of transport security in apps make the latter an important research subject.

Objective

This study aimed to (1) identify relevant security concerns on the server side of mHealth apps, (2) test a subset of mHealth apps regarding their vulnerability to those concerns, and (3) compare the servers used by mHealth apps with servers used in al

SUBMITTER: Muthing J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364205 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature