TY - CONF
T1 - Information governance in an academic medical center
T2 - 22nd MIT International Conference on Information Quality, ICIQ 2017
AU - Powell, Tom
AU - Penning, Melody
AU - Zozus, Meredith Nahm
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Robust information governance frameworks, for example the Data Governance Institute (Data Governance Institute, 2017) and the IBM Data Governance Blueprint (IBM, 2007) have been discussed in the IQ community for at least the last decade. However, only recently has information governance entered the discussion in the healthcare sector. Widespread reuse of healthcare information for research, prompted by the Clinical and Translational Science Award program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was one driver starting in 2006 with the first round of the CTSA program. A second and larger driver is the Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption curve in healthcare in the United States. Prompted by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, with rare exception, hospitals in the United States have implemented electronic health records as have office-based medical practices reimbursed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). After an average three-year initial implementation time, healthcare facilities moved from initial implementation to realizing the need to optimize EHRs toward improving the practice of medicine and ultimately patient safety and outcomes. Hitting the optimization phase of the EHR adoption curve ushered in the need to use healthcare information at the point of care, to guide facility operations and strategic decision-making, for quality improvement, and for research. Thus, the driver for increased and improved information use in healthcare has only recently come upon us and healthcare organizations are just beginning to realize the need for information governance.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - While information governance programs abound in most sectors, they are not widely leveraged in healthcare and vary highly when they exist. We report on a case study of a four-year journey towards information governance at a mid-sized academic medical center. We discuss the factors prompting a more formal approach to information governance, the components of information governance most relevant to our institution, our initial program and lessons learned. We conclude that in our institution, and likely in healthcare in general, information governance and information system governance are essential for enterprise data quality and cannot be treated separately.
AB - While information governance programs abound in most sectors, they are not widely leveraged in healthcare and vary highly when they exist. We report on a case study of a four-year journey towards information governance at a mid-sized academic medical center. We discuss the factors prompting a more formal approach to information governance, the components of information governance most relevant to our institution, our initial program and lessons learned. We conclude that in our institution, and likely in healthcare in general, information governance and information system governance are essential for enterprise data quality and cannot be treated separately.
KW - Data governance
KW - Healthcare
KW - Information governance
KW - Information quality
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Y2 - 6 October 2017 through 7 October 2017
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