By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering -- Investigators publish new report on Information Technology - Data Security. According to news reporting out of Albany, New York, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, “The diffusion of health information technologies (HITs) within the health care sector continues to grow. However, there is no theory explaining how success of HITs influences patient care outcomes.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the State University of New York, “With the increase in data breaches, HITs’ success now hinges on the effectiveness of data protection solutions. Still, empirical research has only addressed privacy concerns, with little regard for other factors of information assurance. The objective of this study was to study the effectiveness of HITs using the DeLone and McLean Information Systems Success Model (DMISSM). We examined the role of information assurance constructs (ie, the role of information security beliefs, privacy concerns, and trust in health information) as measures of HIT effectiveness. We also investigated the relationships between information assurance and three aspects of system success: attitude toward health information exchange (HIE), patient access to health records, and perceived patient care quality. Using structural equation modeling, we analyzed the data from a sample of 3677 cancer patients from a public dataset. We used R software (R Project for Statistical Computing) and the Lavaan package to test the hypothesized relationships. Our extension of the DMISSM to health care was supported. We found that increased privacy concerns reduce the frequency of patient access to health records use, positive attitudes toward HIE, and perceptions of patient care quality. Also, belief in the effectiveness of information security increases the frequency of patient access to health records and positive attitude toward HIE. Trust in health information had a positive association with attitudes toward HIE and perceived patient care quality. Trust in health information had no direct effect on patient access to health records; however, it had an indirect relationship through privacy concerns. Trust in health information and belief in the effectiveness of information security safeguards increases perceptions of patient care quality. Privacy concerns reduce patients’ frequency of accessing health records, patients’ positive attitudes toward HIE exchange, and overall perceived patient care quality.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Health care organizations are encouraged to implement security safeguards to increase trust, the frequency of health record use, and reduce privacy concerns, consequently increasing patient care quality.”
For more information on this research see: The Effectiveness of Health Care Information Technologies: Evaluation of Trust, Security Beliefs, and Privacy as Determinants of Health Care Outcomes. Journal of Medical Internet Research , 2018;20(4):e107. Journal of Medical Internet Research can be contacted at: Journal of Medical Internet Research, Toronto General Hospital, R Fraser Elliott Bldg, 4TH FL, R 4S435, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto, on M5G 2C4, Canada.
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting V. Kisekka, Information Security and Digital Forensics, School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.9014. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
Publisher contact information for the Journal of Medical Internet Research is: Journal of Medical Internet Research, Toronto General Hospital, R Fraser Elliott Bldg, 4TH FL, R 4S435, 190 Elizabeth St, Toronto, on M5G 2C4, Canada.
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CITATION: (2018-04-23), New Data Security Data Have Been Reported by Researchers at State University of New York (The Effectiveness of Health Care Information Technologies: Evaluation of Trust, Security Beliefs, and Privacy as Determinants of Health Care Outcomes), Journal of Engineering, 882, ISSN: 1945-872X, BUTTER® ID: 015544956
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