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Health Beliefs, Protective Behaviors, and Information-Seeking

Nursing Research
Background The outbreak of COVID-19 caused severe damage to public health globally and served as a stark reminder of the potential for future pandemics. Promoting protective behaviors to prevent the spread of any contagious disease thus remains a priority.
Yen-Wen Liu, Chia-Chun Tang
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Challenges for protecting the privacy of health information

Proceedings of the second annual workshop on Security and privacy in medical and home-care systems, 2010
The use of electronic health record (EHR) systems by medical professionals enables the electronic exchange of patient data, yielding cost and quality of care benefits. The United States American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provides up to $34 billion for meaningful use of certified EHR systems.
Ben Smith   +6 more
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Data Protection in Health Information Systems (HIS)

Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering, 1989
Information and communication systems in a health (care) environment are risky systems as the data processed, transmitted, stored and retrieved are person-related. An unjustified disclosure may compromise the individual's personal or social life.
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Protection of health information in data mining

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 2004
The paper studies issues related to privacy protection of health information in data mining. We introduce the implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the privacy of protected health information (PHI). We present an attribute analysis framework of health information and a technological approach for protecting ...
Jingquan Li, Michael J. Shaw
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An Access Control Architecture for Protecting Health Information Systems

2016
The enormous benefits that Health Information Systems (HISs) can offer in terms of quality of care and reduction in costs have led many organizations to develop such systems in their domain. Many national and international organizations have developed their HISs in according to their needs, financial availability and organizational resources (such as ...
Esposito   +5 more
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Improving the information security of personal electronic health records to protect a patient's health information

2017 Conference on Information Communication Technology and Society (ICTAS), 2017
The electronic collection of patient information is a common practice across healthcare organisations in South Africa. Patients are encouraged to manage and control their own health data and information through the use of personal electronic health records (PEHRs). However, as this is a new type of electronic health record, there are concerns that must
Floyd Els, Liezel Cilliers
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Defensive information processing and nonadherence to health‐protective behaviors

Cancer, 2023
Plain language summary In this issue of Cancer, Clarke et al. measure defensive information processing (DIP) to avoid fecal immunochemical testing for colorectal cancer. DIP is a way of reducing the negative psychological effects of threats such as cancer and may influence health‐protective behaviors such as the completion of recommended cancer ...
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Protecting Privacy of Health Information through Privacy Broker

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006
Concerns about the protection of personally identifiable information are not unique to the health care industry; however, consumers view their medical records as more "private" than other information because involuntary disclosure can affect jobs or health insurance status. EPAL is a convenient way of capturing privacy policies.
Jaijit Bhattacharya   +2 more
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Protective measures for private health information.

Perspectives in health information managemen, 2008
This study measured attitudes about patient privacy. Participants ranked a collection of 25 patient- specific health information protection measures that have been established as a part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), effective in April 2003.
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