Assessing Access Control Risk for mHealth: A Delphi Study to Categorize Security of Health Data and Provide Risk Assessment for Mobile Apps.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphones can tackle healthcare stakeholders' diverse needs. Nonetheless, the risk of data disclosure/breach can be higher when using such devices, due to the lack of adequate security and the fact that a medical record has a significant higher financial value when compared with other records. Means to assess those risks are required for every mHealth application interaction, dependent and independent of its goals/content.

Objective

To present a risk assessment feature integration into the SoTRAACE (Socio-Technical Risk-Adaptable Access Control) model, as well as the operationalization of the related mobile health decision policies.

Methods

Since there is still a lack of a definition for health data security categorization, a Delphi study with security ex

SUBMITTER: Moura P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6988678 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature