Protection of individual medical insurance privacy and cognition of information sharing / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To put forward suggestions for individuals, hospitals and medical insurance institutions in protecting medical insurance information privacy by investigating the protection of individual medical insurance pri-vacy and cognition of information sharing. Methods The need of 200 insurants for protecting their medical insur-ance information privacy was investigated with questionnaires. Results The insurants were of certain awareness in protecting their medical insurance information privacy, and believed that hospitals and medical insurance institu-tions would take measures to protect their medical insurance information privacy. However, they would not like to share their medical insurance information because they were afraid of letting them out. The awareness in protecting medical insurance information privacy and sharing medical insurance information was different in the insurants en-gaged in different works with different levels of education. Conclusion The risk of letting medical insurance infor-mation out is existed in certain hospitals and medical insurance institutions due to the problems in the management of their medical insurance information system.