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Unpacking Privacy Calculus and Interplay of Data Privacy and Healthcare: Paths Towards Safeguarding Patient Empowerment

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The modern healthcare landscape is mainly data-driven, with clinical and consumer uses for patient data. Moreover, patient data is used for research and analytics to enhance healthcare results. Yet, this exponential expansion of data is accompanied by grave privacy risks, including data breaches and unlawful access. This chapter examines the data privacy implications of the contemporary healthcare environment and identifies seven significant challenges. In addition, we investigate the idea of privacy calculus and how it impedes patient empowerment and healthcare management effectiveness in the healthcare ecosystem. We highlight the influence of privacy calculus on patients, healthcare professionals, and researchers through five case studies. Lastly, we explore prevalent healthcare rules, their aims, and their primary purposes, and suggest how they might be used to solve privacy calculus. This chapter illuminates the crucial need for privacy protection in the healthcare business and the steps that may be taken to preserve patient data while advancing healthcare research and administration.

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    Nazmus Sakib, Hari Sai Jogesh Veeramalla, Nisarga Allu Raghu Naidu, Lakshman Reddy Vanga & Maria Valero

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh

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  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boise State University, Idaho, USA

    Eklas Hossain

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Sakib, N. et al. (2023). Unpacking Privacy Calculus and Interplay of Data Privacy and Healthcare: Paths Towards Safeguarding Patient Empowerment. In: Daimi, K., Alsadoon, A., Seabra Dos Reis, S. (eds) Current and Future Trends in Health and Medical Informatics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42112-9_7

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