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Health Information Security And Privacy: A Social Science Exploration Of Nurses' Knowledge And Risk Behaviors With Security And Privacy Issues Focusing On Mobile Device Usage, Keith Richard Weiner May 2018

Health Information Security And Privacy: A Social Science Exploration Of Nurses' Knowledge And Risk Behaviors With Security And Privacy Issues Focusing On Mobile Device Usage, Keith Richard Weiner

Theses & Dissertations

Background. Health information system security and privacy are critical issues that impact the wide use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) in healthcare including hospitals, providers and health systems (Breaches Affecting 500 or More Individuals, 2017). These issues have been researched from a technology standpoint in this era of accelerated electronic health record adoption, but less has been done related to the EHR users in the United States. Most of the literature related to security and privacy explores research topics, peripheral and direct, regarding policy adherence mechanisms. Yet to be studied is a social science exploration of nurses’ risk knowledge …