Question

Purpose

In this day and age, information is an asset. Phone apps, social media sites, internet search engines, and wearable devices all collect our information because it is valuable to the business collecting the information. In terms of healthcare, EHRs have made patient information much more valuable as a business asset to healthcare organizations. In the past, it would have taken months or years to analyze patient data, now it can be done in minutes. Dashboards can provide minute-by-minute updates on wait times, equipment availability, and so forth. It is much easier to receive and share information with other healthcare organizations and even the patient. This assignment is meant to get you thinking about how to manage the information that healthcare organizations collect, store, use, and share.

Instructions

Please read the following in preparation for this assignment:

• Chapter 19 in the Sayles and Gordon textbook
• AHIMA’s IG Principles for Healthcare
• AHIMA’s Information Governance FAQ

As HIM Director, you are revising your HIM department’s strategic plan to include Information Governance. What goals would you include for this strategy?

(Suggested length of your response: 3–4 pages, double-spaced)

Answer 1

HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT:

The health care data management is defines as the process of collecting ,storing and protecting the data that is pulled from the different sources. The healthcare data management improves communication and enhances the health outcomes.

There are many challenges in health care data management. Managining the whole data is overwhelming and toughest task. The medical practioners and all the hospital staff involved in collection and of patient data must be diligent.

DATA COLLECTION:

There are different data collection methods in the healthcare organizations. They are:

• Sample versus census
• Based on administrative records versus respondents
• Population versus service based.

The data collected from the entire population which belongs to a specific geographic location such data is termed as census data.

Sometimes all the data cannot be collected from the entire population due to excessive cost and other issues at that time data collected from a subset of population or a sample is selected.

Sometimes the data is collected from the records that are already exist in the healthcare organizations is used for interventions or other purposes.

In population database collection the data is collected from the specific group of population who share same demographic characteristics for example children below 3 years of age.

DATA STORAGE:

The data must be stored in a way that an organizer should easily open and access it. In olden days the patient specific data and other laboratory data are stored in records. As the technology is improving the data is stored in new electronic software’s. Storing patients data in e-records have provided numerous benefits.

DATA USAGE:

There are many ways to use the data obtained in a health care organizations.some of them are:

5. Combine clinical and claims data in a meaningful way
5. Incorporate unstructured data
5. Launch a data warehouse.

DATA SHARING:

By sharing the data one could change the entire healthcare infrastructure. By using the new methods and sharing the data one can protect all the patient specific data. The patients can easily access their own data they can easily able to inform providers about the procedures and tests they have undergone. Still the data sharing process is in the starting period.