As personal health information is digitized and entrusted to healthcare professionals and the technology vendors that manage health information systems (e.g., electronic health records), questions continue to arise regarding how this information is used and protected. By understanding what factors shape people’s health information privacy concerns (HIPCs), organizations can better manage reactions and concerns regarding the use of new technologies and guidance can be produced to help people better protect their health information. We conduct a mixed methods study to examine antecedents to HIPC and find that individuals’ characteristics, perceptions, and experiences all play important roles in shaping HIPC. We also show that users who report high HIPC are less likely to allow their health information to be included in an electronic health record system. The study is conducted using Irish respondents and thus provides a European perspective from a country in which health information systems are not yet widespread.

随着个人健康信息被数字化并委托给医疗专业人员和管理健康信息系统的技术供应商（例如，电子健康记录），关于如何使用和保护该信息的问题继续出现。通过了解影响人们健康信息隐私问题（HIPC）的因素，组织可以更好地管理对使用新技术的反应和关注，并可以提供指导以帮助人们更好地保护其健康信息。我们进行了混合方法研究，以检验重债穷国的前身，发现个人的特征，看法和经验都对重债穷国的形成起着重要作用。我们还表明，报告重债穷国较高的用户不太可能将其健康信息包含在电子健康记录系统中。该研究是使用爱尔兰受访者进行的，因此从一个健康信息系统尚未普及的国家提供了欧洲的观点。