Etika mHealth aplikací

The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to identify and analyze ethical risks associated with the use of mobile health applications (mHealth). The mHealth app market is currently experiencing dynamic growth, since health data ranks among the most sensitive personal information, and the topic of ethical risks is becoming more important. The theoretical part is devoted to the historical development of mHealth, basic principles and problems in medical ethics, and key ethical aspects of mHealth, which are privacy protection, digital divide, and ethics of artificial intelligence. The practical part combines two research approaches: a questionnaire survey (66 respondents), whose purpose was to analyze the perception of ethical risks of mHealth applications among students at the University of Economics in Prague, and a comparative analysis of seven categories of mHealth applications conducted through a literature review. The results show that students perceive ethical risks as serious, but their behavior does not reflect this assessment. Most of them do not read the terms of service and do not have an overview of the scope of data collected. The comparative analysis revealed the highest ethical risk in applications for communication with a doctor, chronic diseases, and mental health. Based on the findings, recommendations are formulated for users, as well as operators and developers of these applications. The bachelor's thesis is limited by the sample of the questionnaire survey, which focused on students at the University of Economics, and the predominance of respondents from the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics.