Privacy, security and resilience in mobile healthcare applications

ABSTRACT

With the advent of mobile applications in health service systems, concerns such as security, privacy, usability, and resilience have been raised. We developed a system view of the concepts of security, privacy, resilience along with their relationship, and proposed a set of principles for designing a mobile application linking the resilience and security in privacy protection. Such study was not found in literature before. This system's view of privacy, security, and resilience has laid a foundation to develop a more effective service system. A case study is presented to illustrate how the proposed principles work in a mobile healthcare application.

KEYWORDS:

• Privacy
• security
• resilience
• cloud
• mobile application design
• healthcare
• scheduling

Acknowledgments

Part of the work presented in this paper is based on a Master of Science thesis of Xu (2019), and herewith this is acknowledged.

Disclosure of statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).