Article Excerpt: Mobile health applications accredited by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service do not adequately protect the privacy of users’ personal health information, according to a study published September 7 in BMC Medicine.
Although the study applies to a small subset of mobile health apps, combining the results of this research with other studies suggests the privacy problem is endemic to many other apps, Kit Huckvale, MB ChB, from the Global eHealth Unit, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, and lead author of the BMC paper, told Medscape Medical News.
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Article Source: Medscape Medical News