Study finds “serious problems with privacy” in mobile health apps

Patients should be informed Media release from BMJ An in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 health related mobile applications (mHealth apps) published by The BMJ today (16 June 2021) finds “serious problems with privacy and inconsistent privacy practices.” The researchers say the collection of personal user information is “a pervasive practice” and that patients “should

Liaw ST, Liyanage H, Kuziemsky C, Terry AL, Schreiber R, Jonnagaddala J, de Lusignan S. Ethical Use of Electronic Health Record Data and Artificial Intelligence: Recommendations of the Primary Care Informatics Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association. Yearbook of Medical Informatics: Apr 2020

Objective: To create practical recommendations for the curation of routinely collected health data and artificial intelligence (AI) in primary care with a focus on ensuring their ethical use. Methods: We defined data curation as the process of management of data throughout its lifecycle to ensure it can be used into the future. We used a