The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Julie Earp - North Carolina State University

Students: Spring 2024, unless noted otherwise, sessions will be virtual on Zoom.

Privacy Policies in Web-based Healthcare

Mar 22, 2006

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Abstract

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) has resulted in the presence of very descriptive privacy policies on healthcare websites. These policies are intended to notify users about the organization's privacy practices; however, they are typically not easy to read, leading few people to actually read them. Given the fact that these policies are not optional, but required by HIPAA, they should be presented in a clear and concise manner that encourages consumers to read them. At the present time, this is not the case. This seminar will present the preliminary results of our study that compares various ways to present privacy management information to healthcare consumers. The study involved an online experiment and survey of 993 Internet users.

About the Speaker

Julie Earp is an Associate Professor of Information Technology in the Business Management Department of the College of Management at NCSU.

She is heavily involved with the cooperative electronic commerce initiative and The Privacy Place, both which involve the College of Management and the College of Engineering. Her research focuses on Internet security and privacy issues from several different perspectives, including data management, consumer values, policy, economics and law. The ultimate goal of her work is to demonstrate the need for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle, specifically addressing the need for novel approaches to security and privacy coverage in web-based systems. Her research recently gained international recognition as the best paper awarded by the Organizational and Communication Information Systems (OCIS) division of the Academy of Management in 2003. An extended version of this award winning paper is available at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop appropriate security and privacy policies as well as systems that are in compliance with those policies.

She has also been a leader in developing the Information Technology curriculum under the Business Management degree at NCSU. She has initiated, designed, and taught several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.






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