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Mobile health applications are used worldwide for healthcare management and deals with sensitive data of patients. The privacy and security of health data are mostly breached through mobile health applications. Prior literature showed that there is a lack of proper guideline for the application developers to take the appropriate measures during application development phase to enhance the privacy and security aspects. Therefore, the objectives of this research are firstly to explore the security and privacy issues of mHealth applications; secondly, to propose a user-centred design-based framework for enhancing privacy and security of mHealth applications; and thirdly, to asses the applicability of the proposed framework to develop mHealth applications. The study revealed a set of vulnerability issues related to security and privacy of mHealth applications developed in the context of Bangladesh and proposed a UCD-based framework to improve the security and privacy of mHealth applications. An evaluation study was also conducted by developing an example mHealth application and by comparing its performance (in terms of security and privacy improvement) with an existing similar kind of application. The evaluation study found that the proposed framework helps to improve the security and privacy aspects of mobile health applications.
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Hasan, U., Nazrul Islam, M., Tajmim Anuva, S., Rahman Tahmid, A. (2021). User-Centred Design-Based Privacy and Security Framework for Developing Mobile Health Applications. In: Uddin, M.S., Bansal, J.C. (eds) Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0586-4_17
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