Privacy Policy Compliance of Chronic Disease Management Apps in China: Scale Development and Content Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the development of mobile health (mHealth), chronic disease management apps have brought not only the possibility of reducing the burden of chronic diseases but also huge privacy risks to patients' health data.

Objective

The purpose of the study was to analyze the extent to which chronic disease management apps in China comply with the Personal Information Security Specification (PI Specification).

Methods

The compliance of 45 popular chronic disease management apps was evaluated from the perspective of the information life cycle. To conduct a fine-grained evaluation, a scale based on the PI Specification was developed. Finally, 6 level 1 indicators, 22 level 2 indicators, and 61 level 3 indicators were defined.

Results

There were 33/45 apps (73

SUBMITTER: Ni Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878107 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature