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Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (95) Ethics, Privacy, and Legal Issues (394)

Published on in Vol 7 , No 4 (2019) :April

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/11223, first published .
Barriers to and Facilitators of the Use of Mobile Health Apps From a Security Perspective: Mixed-Methods Study

Barriers to and Facilitators of the Use of Mobile Health Apps From a Security Perspective: Mixed-Methods Study

Barriers to and Facilitators of the Use of Mobile Health Apps From a Security Perspective: Mixed-Methods Study

Authors of this article:

Leming Zhou 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jie Bao 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Valerie Watzlaf 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Bambang Parmanto 1 Author Orcid Image
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