Browsing by Subject "information exchange"

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    A Benevolent Community: Information Exchange Among University Staff
    (2021-05) Schult, Amy
    Universities face increasing demands for the use of data to inform decision- making; with increasing amounts of data collected, the access and exchange of information continues to become more difficult in organizations. This study examines the roles of social capital and brokerage in the exchange of institutional information among administrative staff in a public university. The analysis is based on data from a survey completed by over 400 participants and eight interviews completed by administrative staff at a public research-intensive university. Findings suggest that several measures of social capital are associated with the perceptions of quality of information accessed, while information accessed through social networks is perceived to have lower quality, on average, than information accessed through information technology systems. Findings also suggest that, although information brokers within universities are willing to respond and are supportive of information requests from colleagues, constraints of time and resources make it difficult for them to provide the information requested.
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    Health Data Sharing Preferences of Consumers: Public Policy and Legal Implications of Consumer-Mediated Data Management
    (2017-05) Moon, Lisa
    An individual’s choice to share or have control of the sharing or withholding of their personal health information is one of the most significant public policy challenges associated with electronic information exchange. There were four aims of this study. First, to describe predictors of health data sharing preferences of consumers. Second, to test a hypothesized path diagram to understand the strength, path, and direction of relationships between and among the constructs of information privacy, data security, data sharing preferences, and consumer-mediated exchange (C-ME). Third, to create a theoretical model. Fourth, to make recommendations describing data governance structures needed for personally identifiable information in consumer-mediated data management. Study findings indicate two levels of health data sharing preferences exist (a) sharing between providers and (b) personal access to health information. The theoretical model showed data security and information privacy have a positive, direct relationship on consumer health data sharing preferences with respect to the types of data and mechanisms used to share personally identifiable health information. Results of this study were used to propose an integrated system approach to design, management, and control of consumer-mediated data management.