> Clinicians should be conscious about the choices they make in relation to their app use and, when recommending apps to consumers, explain the potential for loss of personal privacy as part of informed consent.
That's for me the most important point of that study. It's no good if you avoid data kraken where you can, and meanwhile your physician unwittingly distributes your sensitive data via the latest health app.
My only critique of this is that clinicians in the US may be under large organizational umbrellas and may be strongly encouraged (forced?) to go through apps chosen by the org, and so they aren't really making any conscious choices.
(TBF the paper authors are affiliated with Sydney, Toronto, and California Universities so those healthcare systems are likely different)
That's for me the most important point of that study. It's no good if you avoid data kraken where you can, and meanwhile your physician unwittingly distributes your sensitive data via the latest health app.