Date of Award
Spring 2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Computer and Information Technology
First Advisor
Marcus Rogers
Committee Chair
Marcus Rogers
Committee Member 1
Baijan Yang
Committee Member 2
James Dietz
Abstract
This study explores the relationship between a person's knowledge of risk and their behavior with their use of online medical information. Medical information is gathered and recorded with a variety of methods and stored in a multitude of locations. Laws exist, however, breaches and leakages of medical data occur, typically through loss or theft. Lost and stolen medical information has potentially numerous nefarious purposes including medical identity theft. Medically identifying information can be made more vulnerable through careless use and oversight by both medical entities and consumers. While a person may be knowledgeable or aware of information security risk concepts, principles or practices, does knowledge of information security risk have a correlation to how comfortable a person is when using online medical data?
Recommended Citation
Fowler, Susan Marie, "Measuring the correlation between risk knowledge and comfort utilizing online medical data" (2015). Open Access Theses. 524.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/524