Knowledge and opinions about Health Information Systems security Through the Perspective of medical and nursing students at Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Introduction”
Future health information system management will involve active participation from medical students (MS) and computer engineering students (NS). The value of various information systems for managing the environment and the overall transformation of corporate structure brought about by the development of Additionally, technology has altered the information requirements and company structure.. The study's objective was to assess NS and MS's perspectives on patient privacy and health information system security.
Method:
Cross-sectional quantitative survey design was used to assess the research aims. Third and fourth year King Abd Alaziz University The target population was nursing and medical students. Knowledge and opinions about security issues regarding health information systems questionnaire was developed based on earlier research [An-derson (2007), Appari and Johnson (2010), Gebrasilase and Lessa (2011), Kılıç Aksu et al. (2015), Lekkas and Gitzalis (2007), and Aldosarı (2012)] was used to gather data through self-administer questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into two sections: patient privacy and participants' socio-demographic characteristics and participants’ knowledge and opinions about security issues regarding health information systems. A 5-point Likert scale was used to rate the study's questionnaire items (1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree).