Challenges With Developing Secure Mobile Health Applications: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) apps have gained significant popularity over the last few years due to their tremendous benefits, such as lowering health care costs and increasing patient awareness. However, the sensitivity of health care data makes the security of mHealth apps a serious concern. Poor security practices and lack of security knowledge on the developers' side can cause several vulnerabilities in mHealth apps.

Objective

In this review paper, we aimed to identify and analyze the reported challenges concerning security that developers of mHealth apps face. Additionally, our study aimed to develop a conceptual framework with the challenges for developing secure apps faced by mHealth app development organizations. The knowledge of such challenges can help to red

SUBMITTER: Aljedaani B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature