Athletic trainers play a pivotal role on the field as members of sports teams, using their knowledge of sports medicine to help athletes avoid injury and achieve peak conditioning. Athletic trainers are at the forefront of sports medicine, and given the nature of their work, they come into contact with a lot of sensitive health information as one of the closest people to the athletes on the field. However, health information is highly protected as sensitive personal information, so the obligation to make efforts to manage athletes' personal health information is a natural virtue for athletic trainers, but there is a lack of regulatory and educational systems to strengthen their ethical responsibilities as personal information handlers. In this study, we reviewed and analyzed the previous studies and drew the following conclusions. Since health information is highly protected as sensitive information among personal information, it is time to establish an overall framework for managing athletes' personal health information, a hierarchical classification of health information that clearly defines its limits, and an educational system for managing health information in accordance with the privacy policy. Based on this study, it is believed that if the acquisition of athlete trainer qualification at the national level is accompanied by policies such as mandatory completion of education to strengthen ethical responsibilities as a personal information processor, it will greatly contribute to strengthening the competence of athletic trainers as well as improving safety and performance in the sports field.