Exploring the usability, security and privacy taxonomy for mobile health applications

Abstract

The increase use of smartphones in healthcare industry leads to situations of users sharing their personal healthcare information in several types of applications. The massive number of mobile health (mHealth) applications becomes a serious problem for users, as they are unaware of how to manage and use their data. In this study, usability, security and privacy in mobile health applications are explored and identified by studying and evaluating mHealth applications available in the market. We design and propose a taxonomy intended to assist the developers in developing healthcare applications with usability, security and privacy dimensions in mind. This paper describes an on-going work for developing the taxonomy and describes how we plan to measure the proposed taxonomy.