Assessing Access Control Risk for mHealth: A Delphi Study to Categorize Security of Health Data and Provide Risk Assessment for Mobile Apps

Table 1

Comparison of the most critical identified risks by the Delphi study and the most common threats in healthcare information systems, identified by Samy et al. [39].

Delphi study risks	Threats from Samy et al. [39]	Overlapping
(1) Security in the communication	(1) Power failure/loss	Availability issues of the communication channel
(2) Behavioural differences; (4) Resource sensitivity	(2) Acts of human error or failure	Human behaviour affecting integrity and security of medical records
(5) Device threat level	(3) Technological obsolescence; (4) Hardware failures or errors; (5) Software failures or errors	Software and hardware used in the devices can comprise unpatched security vulnerabilities