MHWG Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework,

Project Co-Leads: Nathan Botts and David Tao

Overview

This project (Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework, AKA cMHAFF and Consumer Mobile App Framework) will define security, privacy and data standards for secure 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 smartphone apps targeted to consumers/citizens that use protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). These standards will not address the 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).

This project will 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).

In particular, standards will address the following areas:

Privacy policy, terms of use, and in-app disclaimers
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

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