Design And Implementation Of Data Preserving Solution For The Cross-platform Mobile Health Applications

In recent years, with the widespread adoption of Internet technologies in medical digitization, mobile health (mHealth) as the new hotspot in medical informatization is becoming a main developing direction of the developed countries’medical system. As an important part of mHealth, mHealth applications (mHealth apps) using advanced mobile communication technology provide convenient and efficient medical services for patients with a patient-centered tenet. However, with the extensive use of smart mobile device and the great improvement of its portability, mHealth apps may comprise significant risks to the privacy and security of consumer’s protected health information. The fast expansion of global mHealth market makes the developers face many challenges. As native development which often requires more and costs a lot is a traditional way to develop mHealth apps, but it can’t catch up with the rapid growth of mHealth market from now on.This paper presents a privacy preserving solution of cross-platform mHealth apps to meet these challenges. This solution is basically structured as three sections:user access control, local data management and encrypted transmission. Due to the particularity of cross-platform technology, identification module can support multiple mobile platforms. Authorization management issued by access token can realize the identity authentication on both sides; prevent illegal access to medical resources, timely stop data breaches of privacy caused by mobile device loss. It effectively guarantees the operation safety of mHealth apps. Mixed encryption transmission of the mobile application data between the server and user set up a safety communication channel. Finally, with all these parts working together, the data privacy protection scheme for mHealth apps can achieve the goal of the privacy protection for patients.