Abstract
BackgroundThe widespread application of technologies such as electronic health record systems, mobile health apps, and telemedicine platforms, has made it easy for health care providers to collect relevant data and deliver health care regimens. While efficacious, these new technologies also pose serious security and privacy challenges.ObjectiveThe training program described here aims at preparing well-informed health information security and privacy professionals with enhanced course materials and various approaches.MethodsA new educational track has been built within a health informatics graduate program. Several existing graduate courses have been enhanced with new security and privacy modules. New labs and seminars have been created, and students are being encouraged to participate in research projects and obtain real-world experience from industry partners. Students in this track receive both theoretical education and hands-on practice. Evaluations have been performed on this new track by conducting multiple surveys on a sample of students.ResultsWe have succeeded in creating a new security track and developing a pertinent curriculum. The newly created security materials have been implemented in multiple courses. Our evaluation indicated that students (N=72) believed that receiving security and privacy training was important for health professionals, the provided security contents were interesting, and having the enhanced security and privacy training in this program was beneficial for their future career.ConclusionsThe security and privacy education for health information professionals in this new security track has been significantly enhanced.
Highlights
In most current health informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, and health information management (HI-MI-NI-Health Information Management (HIM)) education programs, there is either no dedicated security and privacy class or only one available course [1]
According to a study done by Staggers et al in 1999 [2], health care professionals recognized the importance of privacy and security and the need to enhance security and privacy education in this field
During Spring 2016, a Web-based survey was implemented in all security- and privacy-enhanced courses in the new track
Summary
In most current health informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, and health information management (HI-MI-NI-HIM) education programs, there is either no dedicated security and privacy class or only one available course [1]. In large hospitals, dedicated information technology (IT) teams protect patient health data, but in many smaller clinics, there are no dedicated IT personnel to manage EHR systems. This leaves a huge number of security vulnerabilities for attackers to explore. The widespread application of technologies such as electronic health record systems, mobile health apps, and telemedicine platforms, has made it easy for health care providers to collect relevant data and deliver health care regimens While efficacious, these new technologies pose serious security and privacy challenges
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