Privacy Barriers in Health Monitoring: Scoping Review.

The review was not exhaustive: the authors added only the most relevant and important works and did not strictly follow PRISMA steps for all sources. The search focused on privacy attitudes or legal norms in Norway, the EU and the United States, so studies from other regions or with different terms may have been missed. Few included articles directly addressed legal norms or legal concerns about privacy in health monitoring, so the legal section is incomplete. The included studies used very different methods, participant groups and scenarios, which produced contradictory findings about privacy concerns. Studies that found no privacy concerns often had small participant numbers, so sampling bias is possible. The authors note possible confirmation bias, inducible questions, group effects and lack of longitudinal data, so privacy attitudes may not reflect real behaviour.

The article states this research received no external funding.

Do not conclude that privacy concerns are proven to block adoption of health monitoring technologies. The review found contradictory evidence and concluded privacy concerns vary by person and current evidence is insufficient to validate their importance.