Becker's Healthcare October 26, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

The privacy of EHRs and the use of facial recognition top the list of patients’ technology concerns in healthcare, according to an Oct. 14 study published in PLOS ONE.

The study included researchers from Durham, N.C.-based Duke University School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh. For the study, researchers surveyed 4,048 U.S. adults from Nov. 24 to Dec. 14, 2020.

Four study insights:

  1. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they were equally concerned about the privacy of their medical records, DNA and facial recognition technology collected for precision health research. Twenty percent said they were most concerned about the privacy of their EHRs, 17 percent were most concerned about...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), EMR / EHR, Health IT, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Privacy / Security, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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