Hewitt Barbara, Dolezel Diane, McLeod Alexander
Department of Health Information Management at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX.
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2017 Jan 1;14(Winter):1c. eCollection 2017 Winter.
Healthcare data breaches on mobile devices continue to increase, yet the healthcare industry has not adopted mobile device security standards. This increase is disturbing because individuals are often accessing patients' protected health information on personal mobile devices, which could lead to a data breach. This deficiency led the researchers to explore the perceptions of future healthcare workers regarding mobile device security. To determine healthcare students' perspectives on mobile device security, the investigators designed and distributed a survey based on the Technology Threat Avoidance Theory. Three hundred thirty-five students participated in the survey. The data were analyzed to determine participants' perceptions about security threats, effectiveness and costs of safeguards, self-efficacy, susceptibility, severity, and their motivation and actions to secure their mobile devices. Awareness of interventions to protect mobile devices was also examined. Results indicate that while future healthcare professionals perceive the severity of threats to their mobile data, they do not feel personally susceptible. Additionally, participants were knowledgeable about security safeguards, but their knowledge of costs and problems related to the adoption of these measures was mixed. These findings indicate that increasing security awareness of healthcare professionals should be a priority.
移动设备上的医疗数据泄露事件持续增加，但医疗行业尚未采用移动设备安全标准。这种增长令人不安，因为个人经常在个人移动设备上访问患者的受保护健康信息，这可能导致数据泄露。这一缺陷促使研究人员探索未来医护人员对移动设备安全的看法。为了确定医学生对移动设备安全的看法，研究人员基于技术威胁规避理论设计并分发了一项调查。335名学生参与了该调查。对数据进行分析，以确定参与者对安全威胁、保障措施的有效性和成本、自我效能感、易感性、严重性以及他们保护移动设备的动机和行动的看法。还考察了对保护移动设备干预措施的认知。结果表明，虽然未来的医疗专业人员意识到其移动数据面临的威胁的严重性，但他们并不觉得自己易受影响。此外，参与者了解安全保障措施，但他们对采用这些措施的成本和问题的了解参差不齐。这些发现表明，提高医疗专业人员的安全意识应成为优先事项。
