Getting serious about information governance.

摘要

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE IS becoming a priority for healthcare organizations. Today's healthcare organizations invest in information technology at unprecedented rates, and IT generates more data than ever before. Stakeholders expect healthcare organizations to use health IT to bring improvements in care and cost savings to the healthcare system. What's needed now is for healthcare organizations to invest in ways to manage, control, and understand all that data, says Linda Kloss, RHIA, CAE, FAHIMA, founder of Kloss Strategic Advisors and former CEO of AHIMA. To succeed, healthcare organizations require an information governance strategy. Information governance consists of the accountability framework and decision rights needed to ensure effective and efficient use of information across the enterprise to achieve its goals. Developing an information governance strategy, Kloss says, starts with policy. "We look for a tool to fix the problem, but the problem really is a policy problem. We should be thinking of policy first," she says.