Construction and Empirical Research of Privacy Security Evaluation System for Mobile Health Applications
[Purpose/Significance]The purpose of this paper is to construct a privacy security evaluation system for mobile health applications,and to provide measurement tools and decision-making basis for privacy security evalua-tion and improvement of mobile health applications.[Method/Process]Based on the systematic research perspective,it took the procedural grounded theory method to encode and analyze the user interview data,and extracted the evaluation indicators affecting the privacy security of mobile health applications.It applied the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to weight the evaluation indicators,and determined the privacy security evaluation system of mobile health applications.On this basis,it conducted an empirical test of the evaluation system with reference to the correlation coefficient test.[Result/Conclusion]This evaluation system includes five first-level indicators which are data governance guarantee,privacy risk control,health application vulnerability risk,privacy policy and privacy security cognition,and 20 corresponding sec-ond-level indicators.The empirical research results confirm that the evaluation system is reliable and effective.Finally,it identifies the key evaluation indicators and proposes targeted privacy security improvement suggestions accordingly.
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