Perception of Privacy and Security for Acceptance of E-health Technologies: Exploratory analysis for diverse user groups

Abstract

The present study explores perceived relevance of security and privacy aspects in different user groups and assesses the predictive power of these attributes on acceptance of medical assistive technologies. Based on previously conducted focus groups a questionnaire was developed and quantitative data from N = 104 persons were analyzed. In a descriptive manner opinions of adults in all stages of life (age groups from young, middle-aged to older people) as well as gender-and health-related are presented and discussed with regard to those characteristics, and differences between the groups are disclosed. In multivariate regressions follows the analysis of most predictive security and privacy attributes for the acceptance (i.e. perceived usefulness) of E-health technologies. Results show that both security and privacy aspects play an important role for acceptance and usage of medical assistive technologies.

Mobile Healthcare Adoption among Patients in a Developing Country Environment: Exploring the Influence of Age and Gender Differences

“…This result clearly indicates higher patients" perceptions of security/privacy will not lead patients to perceive the technology as useful to their jobs and patients become less to adopt the technology. However, these results are not in line with some previous findings carried out in healthcare and non-healthcare fields (Lallmahamood, 2007;Wilkowska & Ziefle, 2011;Nasri et al, 2013).…”

“…In fact, it is apparent from literature that women generally perceive higher level of risk and uncertainty than men when making an adoption decision, and this leads women to report higher degree of security/privacy concerns than men (Jensen et al, 2005;Fogel & Nehmad, 2009;Michota, 2013). Therefore, women will be more reluctance to release their sensitive personal health data and this may well hamper the pace of adoption of technology-assisted healthcare systems such as e-healthcare and m-healthcare technologies (Wilkowska & Ziefle, 2011). Furthermore, different genders may exhibit different price perceptions.…”

“…Thus, security and privacy issues are not influenced by gender differences in relation to the adoption of m-healthcare. However, literature has reported that women tend to be influenced more strongly by security and privacy issues than men (Fogel & Nehmad, 2009;Wilkowska & Ziefle, 2011;Michota, 2013).…”

“…Both privacy and security issues have surfaced in many IT domains to be a core issue that support technology adoption and diffusion (Cho et al, 2009;Zorotheos et al, 2009;. Based on extended TAM, an empirical study conducted by Wilkowska and Ziefle (2011) established that privacy and security issues are very important determinants that influence the usage of e-healthcare technologies. Further, Liu et al (2011) acknowledged that the electronic health records (EHRs) were extremely difficult to maintain a complete privacy of the data.…”

Integrated Home Monitoring and Compliance Optimization for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

“…Initial user studies indicate that patients, as well as healthy people, prefer not having visible medical instruments in their living environment while having the full functionality and optimized ergonomics of devices. 21 In order to further explore this theory, we integrated the sensor devices in the furniture and room components (Fig. 3) so that the medical equipment is almost invisible to an unacquainted person but still easily accessible for the patient.…”