MHWG Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework,
Project Co-Leads: Nathan Botts and David Tao
Contents
Overview
This project (Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework, (a.k.a. cMHAFF) will define security, privacy and data standards for mobile health applications (apps), as well as guidance pertaining to transparency and consumer protection through the life cycle of such apps (from purchase, download, installation, use, and deletion). The intent is to provide industry guidance and common methods to enable the development of mobile health apps targeted to consumers/citizens that use protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). These standards will not address the clinical content of such apps, but will provide a framework for security, privacy and the integration of data generated from apps into Personal Health Record (PHR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems as well as into other types of data repositories (e.g., personal data stores, population care systems). "Mobile Health Apps" include apps running typically on smartphones, but also on other consumer devices such as watches and tablets.
This project may reuse conformance criteria already available within the HL7 PHR-S and EHR-S Functional Models, augmenting with new conformance criteria specific to mobile platforms (e.g., use of geolocation services, accelerometers, cameras, microphones, contacts). It will not attempt to replciate standards, regulations, and guidelines defined elsewhere, but will reference them where possible.
In particular, standards will address the following areas:
- User, device, and cross-system authentication
- Authorization to content and features
- Proxy designations
- Use of location services, camera, accelerometers and other smartphone services
- Security of data at rest (local and cloud)
- Security of data in transit (wired and wireless)
- Minimum data standards for device generated and device transmitted information
- Record system reliability; record authenticity (it is what it represents to be)
- Data provenance
- Audit
- Discontinuation of use of an app
- Conditions and agreements, e.g., privacy policy, terms of use, and in-app disclaimers
The cMHAFF project went through an HL7 Comment-Only Ballot in January 2016; comments were reconciled as of September 2016; a revised cMHAFF document is being developed for balloting in 2017.
Project Scope Statement
File:PSS Consumer Mobile Health App Framework 20150217.pdf
Meetings
Standing meetings are every Monday at 5 PM Eastern
WebEx: https://westat.webex.com/westat/j.php?MTID=mf163da12b3585dd6f6ffa0e66adfb4bf
Phone: +1 770-657-9270 Participant Passcode: 465623
Documents
2017 Working Documents
File:HL7 cMHAFF Informative Ballot Draft Clean 2017-01-30.docx Clean snapshot copy of cMHAFF as updated after ballot reconciliation, in progress toward next ballot.
File:MHAFF CONS MHAFF R1 O1 2016JAN Consolidated WG TRACK FOR 2017 BALLOT.xlsx -- Ballot Reconciliation spreadsheet, edited to show work in progress toward next ballot
Old documents
The following are old, but are included for historical purposes File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Conformance Criteria v20150618.docx
File:MHAFF CONS MHAFF R1 O1 2016JAN.pdf -- Original cMHAFF as balloted in January 2016
File:HL7 MH Out of Cycle intro v20150427.pptx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile Framework Overview v20150406.pptx
Minutes
Most meetings in 2016 were dedicated to ballot reconciliation, and the results were reflected in the Ballot Reconciliation Spreadsheet (see link under 2017 Workng Documents above).
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20150818.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20150810.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20150615.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20150601.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v201500518.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v201500504.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20150427 28.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20140413.docx
File:HL7 Consumer Mobile App Framework Minutes v20140406.docx