Although specific privacy-related properties have been proposed for remote/home-based healthcare systems, usability issues relating to those properties have received little consideration. We review privacy-related problems that need to be addressed and identify many human factors considerations associated with implementation of the privacy properties for remote/home healthcare systems. Implementations that do not take the users into account will likely fail to accomplish their privacy and security goals.
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