Global Master's Programme in Health Economics, Management and Policy, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Oct 20;309:155-159. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230765.
Menopausal women increasingly rely on FemTech apps to manage their symptoms, as mobile applications can provide a convenient and easily accessible health solution. However, this scoping review and content analysis of 14 menopause apps available on Google Play in the European Union found that most applications categorisation is not aligning with their features as well as lack adequate data privacy and security sufficiency. Thereby sensitive health data of menopausal women are put at risk, highlighting the need for collaborative efforts between developers and regulators to implement effective and achievable data protection practices to enhance menopausal women's data safely.
绝经期女性越来越依赖 FemTech 应用程序来管理她们的症状，因为移动应用程序可以提供一种方便且易于获取的健康解决方案。然而，这项对欧盟谷歌 Play 商店中 14 种可用的绝经期应用程序的范围界定审查和内容分析发现，大多数应用程序的分类与其功能不匹配，并且缺乏足够的数据隐私和安全性。因此，绝经期女性的敏感健康数据面临风险，这凸显了开发者和监管机构之间需要合作，实施有效且可行的数据保护实践，以提高绝经期女性的数据安全性。
