Antecedents of Health Information Privacy Concerns

Due to demographic changes, health information technologies comprising electronic health records (EHR), electronic medical records (EMR), personal health records (PHR), remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other healthcare related websites are gaining significant relevance. They constitute a great opportunity for efficiency gains and further benefits. One of the major barriers to their successful adoption involves individual health information privacy concerns. In order to understand their nature and better mitigate them, this narrative literature survey deals with the antecedents of these concerns. In particular, this study identifies type of information, health status, recipient of information, knowledge of health information technology, experience of privacy invasions, age, gender, and education as highly important characteristics.