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Medical Practitioners’ Intention To Use Secure Electronic Medical Records In Healthcare Organizations, Omar Enrique Sangurima
Medical Practitioners’ Intention To Use Secure Electronic Medical Records In Healthcare Organizations, Omar Enrique Sangurima
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Medical practitioners have difficulty fully implementing secure electronic medical records (EMRs). Clinicians and medical technologists alike need to identify motivational factors behind secure EMR implementation to assure the safety of patient data. Grounded in the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationship between medical practitioners’ perceptions of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and the intention to use secure EMRs in healthcare organizations. Survey data (N = 126) were collected from medical practitioners from the northeastern United States. The results of the multiple regression …
Impact Of Information Breaches On Health Care Records, Anton Antony Arockiasamy
Impact Of Information Breaches On Health Care Records, Anton Antony Arockiasamy
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Although there were almost 3.5 million reported information breaches of health care data in the first quarter of 2019, health care providers do not know the extent of digital and nondigital breaches of patient medical records. The purpose of this quantitative, comparative study was to identify the difference between the individual patient records affected by digital versus nondigital breaches for three types of health care entities in the United States, health care providers, health care plans, and health care clearinghouses. Allman’s privacy regulation theory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Privacy Framework, and ecological systems theory comprised the theoretical …