Availability and quality of mobile health app privacy policies

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue e1, 2015, Pages e28-e33

  Sunyaev, Ali ^a   Dehling, Tobias ^a   Taylor, Patrick L ^b   Mandl, Kenneth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE; PRIVACY; MOBILE APPLICATION; TELEMEDICINE;

MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PRIVACY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84938417298     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002605     Document Type: Article

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