Dublin Core
Title
Information Privacy in Healthcare Institutions: A Case of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
Creator
Nana Yaa Sarkodie-Adu
Description
The study was conducted to investigate information privacy in healthcare systems with a focus on Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. Notably, the study sought to establish the existing policies and practices regarding information privacy, identify the threats to information privacy and find out the adequacy of information privacy systems in the Hospital. The study adopted a descriptive research design; sampling 150 staff and 70 patients using stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analysed using frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation. The study found that the Hospital has policies and systems for regulating the collection and access to medical records of patients to ensure privacy of such information. The major threats to information privacy were unintentional actions or negligence by staff and accidental access upon a patient’s records out of curiosity or for their own purpose. Finally, the existing information privacy systems within the Hospital was moderately adequate. The most adequate of the existing principles were data control, security, transparency, and anonymity and pseudonymity. The study concludes that in spite of the adequacy of information privacy measures, the privacy of medical records is seriously threatened if adequate security measures are not established to address the security lapses. It is recommended that the Hospital put in place adequate security measures to deal with accidental exposure of medical records of patients to outsiders. Also, continuous training on information security and privacy for all staff of the Hospital is strongly recommended.
Subject
MSc. Management Information Systems
Publisher
Ghana Technology University College
Date
MAY 2018
Contributor
Dr. Ezer Osei Yeboah- Boateng