Impact of Security and Privacy Concerns among Medicare Patients on Sharing Health

The use of Internet for sharing health-related information has served to empower patients, improve self-health management knowledge and provide emotional support to patients. This paper investigates the factors that influence the use of Internet to share health-related information by patients covered under Medicare, especially, the impact of security and privacy concern. This paper adapts the Information System Success Model to health care context. The paper proposes that information quality, system security and privacy, physician patient communication, negative emotions and perceived health status are related to share health-related information online. We also examine the impact of education level on health information sharing online. The paper utilizes the 2012 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) to draw conclusions.