An information privacy model for primary health care facilities

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dc.contributor.advisorFlowerday, Sen
dc.contributor.authorBoucher, Duane Ericen
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-20T07:22:59Z
dc.date.available2026-08-20T07:22:59Z
dc.date.issued2013en
dc.description.abstractThe revolutionary migration within the health care sector towards the digitisation of medical records for convenience or compliance touches on many concerns with respect to ensuring the security of patient personally identifiable information (PII). Foremost of these is that a patient’s right to privacy is not violated. To this end, it is necessary that health care practitioners have a clear understanding of the various constructs of privacy in order to ensure privacy compliance is maintained. This research project focuses on an investigation of privacy from a multidisciplinary philosophical perspective to highlight the constructs of information privacy. These constructs together with a discussion focused on the confidentiality and accessibility of medical records results in the development of an artefact represented in the format of a model. The formulation of the model is accomplished by making use of the Design Science research guidelines for artefact development. Part of the process required that the artefact be refined through the use of an Expert Review Process. This involved an iterative (three phase) process which required (seven) experts from the fields of privacy, information security, and health care to respond to semi-structured questions administered with an interview guide. The data analysis process utilised the ISO/IEC 29100:2011(E) standard on privacy as a means to assign thematic codes to the responses, which were then analysed. The proposed information privacy model was discussed in relation to the compliance requirements of the South African Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Bill of 2009 and their application in a primary health care facility. The proposed information privacy model provides a holistic view of privacy management that can residually be used to increase awareness associated with the compliance requirements of using patient PII.en
dc.format182 leaves; 30 cmen
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dc.identifier.citationBoucher, Duane Eric. 2013en
dc.identifier.othervital:11139en
dc.identifier.otherhttp://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007181en
dc.identifier.otherData protectionen
dc.identifier.otherPrivacy, Right ofen
dc.identifier.otherMedical records -- Access controlen
dc.identifier.otherPrimary health careen
dc.identifier.otherMedical careen
dc.identifier.otherCaregiversen
dc.identifier.otherCommunity health nursingen
dc.identifier.otherConfidential communicationsen
dc.identifier.otherInformation technology -- Managementen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/4959
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.publisherFaculty of Management & Commerceen
dc.rightsUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.subjectData protectionen
dc.subjectPrivacy, Right ofen
dc.subjectMedical records -- Access controlen
dc.subjectPrimary health careen
dc.subjectMedical careen
dc.subjectCaregiversen
dc.subjectCommunity health nursingen
dc.subjectConfidential communicationsen
dc.subjectInformation technology -- Managementen
dc.titleAn information privacy model for primary health care facilitiesen
dc.title.alternativeAn information privacy model for primary health care facilitiesen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.typeMastersen
dc.typeMCom (Information Systems)en

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