3 Personal Cybersecurity for eHealth Deployments

DOI: 10.1201/9781003254416-3

Introduction

Adeola is a practising neuro-psychiatric physician at a healthcare facility in Canada. She uses Psyche-I-Track – a mobile mHealth application – to track and document the mental health progress of her outpatients. These patients are also able to connect to a patient section of the mobile application to report the status of their mental health at certain scheduled times of the day, primarily by completing an electronic form/questionnaire. They could alternatively have a caregiver or relative do this for them at the scheduled time, when a video-based assessment is not required.

On a workday like any other, for some inexplicable reason, Adeola was suddenly ...

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