A Review of Cellphone Healthcare Applications: Content Privacy and Safety Issues, Challenges and Recommendations

Abstract

Nowadays, cellphone healthcare applications are receiving a considerable amount of attentiveness from both researchers and developers.  Advances in communication technologies have aided the evolution in the usage of cellphones and digital devices and present challenges in terms of the accuracy and reliability of cellphone healthcare applications. Nevertheless, these applications may compromise crucial threats related to the seclusion and safety of users’ health content. Awareness of these challenges can help cellphone and cellphone application producers to manufacture efficient tools to allow patients and users to access the services of these technologies very effectively. The main objective of this research paper is to recognize the potential limitations and strengths regarding content seclusion and safety for the development and widespread utilization of effective cellphone healthcare applications. We have employed a literature survey and a relative comparison of the top ten top-rated cellphone healthcare applications to recognize security threats and characteristics that can support developers in building healthcare applications with necessary seclusion and safety standards and allow the users to select the appropriate application for their personal use.