Julie Earp's guest appearances

Julie Earp

CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar - Purdue University

Ryan Henry

Cory Doctorow

Doug Smith

Larry Ponemon

George Heron

Laura Thomas

Eli Lilly

Stephen Elliott

Tony Sager

David Carroll

Jack Daniel

Joe Judge

Chris Reed

Richard III

John Richardson

OwlTail

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) has resulted in the presence of very descriptive privacy policies on healthcare websites.  These policies are intended to notify users about the organization's privacy practices; however, they are typically not easy to read, leading few people to actually read them.  Given the fact that these policies are not optional, but required by HIPAA, they should be presented in a clear and concise manner that encourages consumers to read them.  At the present time, this is not the case.  This seminar will present the preliminary results of our study that compares various ways to present privacy management information to healthcare consumers.  The study involved an online experiment and survey of 993 Internet users.  About the speaker: Julie Earp is an Associate Professor of Information Technology in the Business Management Department of the College of Management at NCSU.    She is heavily involved with the cooperative electronic commerce initiative and The Privacy Place, both which involve the College of Management and the College of Engineering. Her research focuses on Internet security and privacy issues from several different perspectives, including data management, consumer values, policy, economics and law. The ultimate goal of her work is to demonstrate the need for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle, specifically addressing the need for novel approaches to security and privacy coverage in web-based systems. Her research recently gained international recognition as the best paper awarded by the Organizational and Communication Information Systems (OCIS) division of the Academy of Management in 2003. An extended version of this award winning paper is available at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.    Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop appropriate security and privacy policies as well as systems that are in compliance with those policies.    She has also been a leader in developing the Information Technology curriculum under the Business Management degree at NCSU. She has initiated, designed, and taught several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. 

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) has resulted in the presence of very descriptive privacy policies on healthcare websites. These policies are intended to notify users about the organization's privacy practices; however, they are typically not easy to read, leading few people to actually read them. Given the fact that these policies are not optional, but required by HIPAA, they should be presented in a clear and concise manner that encourages consumers to read them. At the present time, this is not the case. This seminar will present the preliminary results of our study that compares various ways to present privacy management information to healthcare consumers. The study involved an online experiment and survey of 993 Internet users. About the speaker: Julie Earp is an Associate Professor of Information Technology in the Business Management Department of the College of Management at NCSU. She is heavily involved with the cooperative electronic commerce initiative and The Privacy Place, both which involve the College of Management and the College of Engineering. Her research focuses on Internet security and privacy issues from several different perspectives, including data management, consumer values, policy, economics and law. The ultimate goal of her work is to demonstrate the need for supporting the early stages of the software lifecycle, specifically addressing the need for novel approaches to security and privacy coverage in web-based systems. Her research recently gained international recognition as the best paper awarded by the Organizational and Communication Information Systems (OCIS) division of the Academy of Management in 2003. An extended version of this award winning paper is available at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Her involvement in educational activities has included her role as co-founder and co-director of the NCSU E-Commerce Studio. The Studio is a lab in which management and computer science graduate students collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to develop Web-based e-commerce applications for industrial partners. In keeping with her research focus, students in the Studio are taught how to develop appropriate security and privacy policies as well as systems that are in compliance with those policies. She has also been a leader in developing the Information Technology curriculum under the Business Management degree at NCSU. She has initiated, designed, and taught several courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Julie Earp, Privacy Policies in Web-based Healthcare