Privacy Assessment in Mobile Health Apps: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Privacy has always been a concern, especially in the health domain. The proliferation of mobile health (mHealth) apps has led to a large amount of sensitive data being generated. Some authors have performed privacy assessments of mHealth apps. They have evaluated diverse privacy components; however, different authors have used different criteria for their assessments.

Objective

This scoping review aims to understand how privacy is assessed for mHealth apps, focusing on the components, scales, criteria, and scoring methods used. A simple taxonomy to categorize the privacy assessments of mHealth apps based on component evaluation is also proposed.

Methods

We followed the methodology defined by Arksey and O'Malley to conduct a scoping review. Included studies

SUBMITTER: Benjumea J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7367524 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature