Evaluation of mHealth Applications Security Based on Application Permissions.

The presented study covers the evaluation of ratings of a set of 1080 applications classified as “top apps” for the two categories “Medicine” and “Health & Fitness” as they are available on Google’s Play Store. Within the evaluation, the manifest files and source code of the applications were analyz...

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Publicado en:Studies in Health Technology & Informatics Vol. 226; pp. 241 - 245
Autores principales: PUSTOZEROV, Evgenii, VON JAN, Ute, ALBRECHT, Urs-Vito
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2016
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        affil: Hannover Medical School, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics. University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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          Mobile Applications
          Health Information
          Data Security Evaluation
          Files and Filing
          Programming Languages
          Medicine
          Health
          Physical Fitness
          Product Evaluation
          Safety
          Descriptive Statistics
          Smartphone
          Internet
          Privacy and Confidentiality
          Software
      ab: The presented study covers the evaluation of ratings of a set of 1080 applications classified as “top apps” for the two categories “Medicine” and “Health & Fitness” as they are available on Google’s Play Store. Within the evaluation, the manifest files and source code of the applications were analyzed in order to reveal whether the requested set of permissions correspond to the ones really utilized by the apps and whether they surpass what is necessary. For many apps, the declarations in the manifest file do not match what is specified in the source code, raising the question of whether this may be an indication of questionable app quality with a potentially negative impact on the safety and reliability of mHealth related apps.
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