Paper Info
Title
Patient Preferences for Authentication and Security: A Comparison Study of Younger and Older Patients.
Abstract
We examine authentication and security preferences of younger versus older patients in the healthcare domain. Previous research has investigated users' perception of the acceptability of various forms of authentication in non-healthcare domains, but not patients' preferences. First, we developed an interactive prototype to test three authentication methods: passwords, pattern, and voice. Our results indicate that younger patients prefer passwords by a significant margin. Older patients indicated more mixed preferences. In addition, we evaluated the level of security patients desired for protection of health information compared to financial information. We found no difference based on age: both groups felt financial security is more important than health data security. The findings of this research can be used to improve and enhance usability of future PHRs and overall PHR usage by patients. While this study is specific to cardiology patients we believe the results are generalizable to all patients with chronic conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3209626.3209702
SIGMIS-CPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
PHRs,usability,authentication,privacy,security,prototype,patients,cardiology
Health care,Data security,Internet privacy,Authentication,Financial information,Usability,Psychology,Password,Perception,Health information
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5768-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ann L. Fruhling16418.25
Devika Ramachandran200.34
Tamara L. Bernard300.34
Ryan M. Schuetzler4549.39
John R. Windle502.03