Electronic Health Records promise to solve many of the current healthcare challenges since they have the potential to improve performance and quality of healthcare. However, for an EHR be fully employed by all the stakeholders, it is necessary to overcome some of the existent barriers to its adoption. With the EHRs available online, the risk of patient privacy violations as well as cyber-attacks increases the patients’ concerns for their information privacy. Therefore, this study deepens about Portuguese patients’ concern around information privacy, factors influencing these concerns and how the decision to adopt EHRs can be influenced in patients with privacy concerns. A cross-sectional online survey showed that Portuguese citizens have concerns for information privacy and those vary across gender and education. Moreover, when presented with positive message framings, individuals are more willing to adopt EHRs and the majority of the respondents believe that this system will improve the overall quality of the Portuguese healthcare system.
Date of Award | 13 Jul 2017 |
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Original language | English |
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Awarding Institution | - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Supervisor | Susana Frazão Ferreira Fernandes Pinheiro (Supervisor) |
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- Mestrado em Gestão e Administração de Empresas
Adoption of Electronic Health Records in the Portuguese healthcare system in the presence of privacy concerns
Andrade, A. R. R. (Student). 13 Jul 2017
Student thesis: Master's Thesis