Medscape June 17, 2021
(Reuters Health) – Personal data may be at risk with many health and medical apps, a new study suggests.
An in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 health related apps available through Google Play reveals serious privacy issues, and clinicians should be aware of these when discussing the benefits and risks of mobile-health (mHealth) apps with patients, researchers conclude in The BMJ.
“Clinicians and patients alike should be very careful when deciding to use one of the mHealth apps, whether it is for management of health conditions and symptom checking or other purposes such as menstruation tracking,” said Muhammad Ikram, a lecturer at Macquarie University Cybersecurity Hub in Sydney.
“The vast majority of these apps could not only access, but also...
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