Title :
HIPAA´s Effect on Web Site Privacy Policies
Author :
Antón, Annie I. ; Earp, Julie B. ; Vail, Matthew W. ; Jain, Neha ; Gheen, Carrie M. ; Frink, Jack M.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
Abstract :
Healthcare institutions typically post their privacy practices online as privacy policy documents. We conducted a longitudinal study that examines the effects of HIPAA´s enactment on a collection of privacy policy documents for a fixed set of organizations over a four-year period. We present our analysis of 24 healthcare privacy policy documents from nine healthcare Web sites, analyzed using goal mining, a content-analysis method that supports extraction of useful information about institutions´ privacy practices from documents. We compare our results to our pre-HIPAA study of these same institutions´ online privacy practices and evaluate their evolution in the presence of privacy laws
Keywords :
Web sites; content management; data mining; data privacy; document handling; health care; legislation; medical information systems; HIPAA enactment; content-analysis method; goal mining; healthcare Web sites; healthcare privacy policy documents; Credit cards; Data mining; Data privacy; Information analysis; Insurance; Internet; Legislation; Medical services; Protection; Text analysis; HIPAA; Health Information and Portability Accountability Act; goal-driven analysis; online privacy; privacy policy; readability; software requirements engineering;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
