A Review on Usability, Security and Privacy for Mobile Health Applications

Mobile health applications, or mHealth, deal with health issues or medical supported by smartphones. mHealth applications are able to improve both the safety of the patients and the quality of medical services. It is considered to be a recent field with great potential that appeal to the interests of the stakeholders and the developers. By adopting the systematic literature review method, this paper presents a broad review of usability, security and privacy for mHealth applications. Specifically, we discussed the limitations as well the recommendations of USP characteristics in mHealth applications. It is crucial to learn and understand to overcome the conflict between usability, security and privacy in mHealth applications.

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