ESSAY : Information Systems for Healthcare

As the manager of the CTU Health Care information systems department, complete the following:

Define health information governance.
Discuss the major components of health information governance and its importance on health care organization information systems.
Discuss the importance of communication and information governance.
Note: Use APA style and cite at least 2 scholarly references published within the last 5 years.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

What did you learn from your classmate\’s posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates\’ postings?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Define health information governance

Health information governance is the technique used by hospitals/organizations to ensure that information is processed and handled in the best manner possible. It entails personal patient information as well as employees as pertains to patient data, financial and accounting records (Rotberg, 2014). It may also refer to structures, policies and related procedures that are put up by hospitals who are also custodians to their implementation. Other than hospitals, the developed structures also have to be implemented by insurance companies and other health care providers. In implementing such policies and structures, the parties involved collect, consolidate, utilize as well as secure data.

Discuss the major components of health information governance and its importance on health care organization information systems.

The major components of information governance in healthcare include:

1. The organizational concept which lays the foundation of le policies for the governing of information and how the hired staff are to support effective management of information within a healthcare system.

The component of data stewardship- This lays emphasis on how people have to use and interpret data. It is mostly divided in departments to…