Purpose
This assignment is intended to assess your ability to conduct research in health information governance using a variety of appropriate resources.
Action Items
Read the course materials for this module in Module 2 Prep.
In a 2-3 page paper, respond to the following questions:
Conduct further research on the gap(s) that you identified in Module 1 when you researched the current gaps of information governance in healthcare.
Write a background study in accordance with guidelines provided for Writing a Good Study Background.
Compose your paper in Microsoft Word. Include your name, the assignment name, the course and section number, and the date. Cite ALL sources according to APA format.
Submit your assignment to Turnitin. Give yourself enough time to revise and resubmit ahead of the due date.
You must log in to Turnitin to ensure your Similarity Score is less than 25%.
By the due date indicated, upload your final work to Turnitin.
Module 2 Overview
Healthcare Information Governance Challenges
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the requirements for this module, you should be able to do the following:
Write a brief summary of a research topic in information governance in healthcare.
Plan the research approach and scope.
Formulate a research problem.
Summarize key foci points for the study.
Defend the study’s significance and potential value.
Upon successful completion of the above, you would have satisfied some of the course learning outcomes in being able to:
Examine the strategic value of enterprise information in healthcare settings.
Recommend appropriate controls to guard against risks to healthcare information.
Introduction
A 2014 benchmarking white paper produced by Cohasset associates on behalf of AHIMA called for the adoption of information governance practices in healthcare. The paper delivered authoritative and current benchmarks on information life cycle practices in healthcare, noting specifically the need for:
“(A)ctions to respond to today’s information governance challenges”
A number of these challenges have revolved around managing and protecting enterprise information in healthcare environments. Protecting enterprise information has recently taken on a more strategic approach to its management, given that a good number of organizations now use cloud data storage. The need to meet data protection and privacy legislation further elevates pressure to meet compliance requirements by these firms. Healthcare organizations are no exception to these realities.
Managing the challenges presented by enterprise information is a constant battle. Some of the obvious challenges include:
Managing privacy, confidentiality and security of health information.
Ensuring that quality information through its life cycle is efficiently and effectively managed between its various forms – paper and electronic.
Managing the design and capture of information.
Information design and capture requires appropriate information infrastructure and technology acquisition in standardized environments.
Ensuring that decisions are based on quality information.
Ensuring that trained personnel are available to help capture, store, analyze, pull and present information and deliver to the right people, at the right time and in the right formats.
Besides challenges with enterprise information management, information governance is also sometimes flawed due to:
The lack of policies and procedures to effect the much-needed change for governance practices.
The lack of strategy to institute governance practices, as well as maintain and sustain such efforts.
Having in place the right personnel to keep information governance practices going is also a battle.
References
[1] Kloss, L. (2015). Implementing Health Information Governance. Lessons from the Field. American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). ISBN-13: 978-1-58426-087-5.
[2] Cohasset Associates & AHIMA (2014). Information Governance in Healthcare. A call to Adopt Information Governance Practices. Benchmarking White Paper, 38 pp.
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