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The Effect of Patient Privacy on Telemedicine Implementation in Developing Countries: Iraq Case Study

Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani and Mustafa Musa Jaber
Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologi (BIOCORE) Applied Research Group, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologi, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology  2015  11:1233-1237
http://dx.doi.org/10.19026/rjaset.11.2230  |  © The Author(s) 2015
Received: July ‎19, ‎2015  |  Accepted: September ‎7, ‎2015  |  Published: December 15, 2015

Abstract

The aim of this research is to measure patient privacy factor of adopting telemedicine project in Iraq since it plays a central role in adopting telemedicine in developed countries or even in Developing countries this research measures the importance of patient privacy in developing countries and take Iraq as case study, Questionnaire used as instrument of collection data. First was the pilot study and 35 questionnaire were distributed at Baghdad medical city and 500 were distributed to physicians, some of these questionnaire were ignored because they was not completed thus 312 respondent only were used for the final result.

Keywords:

Adopting telemedicine , patient privacy , telemedicine,


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Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests.

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ISSN (Online):  2040-7467
ISSN (Print):   2040-7459
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