Software Project Management research team, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.
Department of Informatics and Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
J Med Syst. 2018 Jun 29;42(8):144. doi: 10.1007/s10916-018-1002-x.
A mobile personal health record (mPHR) for pregnancy monitoring allows the pregnant woman to track and manage her personal health data. However, owing to the privacy and security issues that may threaten the exchange of this sensitive data, a privacy policy should be established. The aim of this study is to evaluate the privacy policies of 19 mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring (12 for iOS and 7 for Android) using a template covering the characteristics of privacy, security, and standards and regulations. The findings of this study show that none of the privacy policies evaluated entirely comply with the characteristics studied. The developers of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring are, therefore, requested to improve and pay more attention to the structure and the content of the privacy policies of their apps.
移动个人健康记录（mPHR）用于妊娠监测，可使孕妇跟踪和管理个人健康数据。然而，由于可能威胁到交换这些敏感数据的隐私和安全问题，应制定隐私政策。本研究旨在使用涵盖隐私、安全以及标准和法规特征的模板，评估 19 种用于妊娠监测的移动个人健康记录应用程序的隐私政策（12 种用于 iOS，7 种用于 Android）。本研究的结果表明，评估的隐私政策中没有一项完全符合所研究的特征。因此，要求用于妊娠监测的移动个人健康记录应用程序的开发者改进并更加关注应用程序隐私政策的结构和内容。
