Introduction

Mobile health, also known as mHealth, utilizes mobile technology in order to provide medical services to millions of people. The reason mHealth apps were created was to allow individuals to play a more significant role in their health by accessing healthcare services through something that millions of people use every day, which is technology. The rise of these mHealth apps began when the combination of handheld devices and cloud computer started to become more common among the population because then there could also be a way to access health-related apps 24/7. Some common mHealth apps include food-intake trackers, medication reminders, and fitness trackers. Current studies show that as of August 2022, 83% of the world’s population owns a smartphone, with mHealth apps essentially becoming apps that are now commonly found as default apps (Petrovic, 2022). However, with the rise of mHealth applications, there are downsides to this development and those include security concerns that include medical information being leaked by hackers, and ethical concerns are also widespread because there is more medical information on the cloud now than ever before. Therefore, this research is important because it analyzes various aspects of mHealth apps in order to determine the best way to approach the advancement of health-related apps, while also considering a way to keep medical information confidential to the users themselves.