Implementing Health Information Governance

Implementing Health Information Governance

Health Information Governance in a Digital Environment

Delivering the desired benefits from using information technology in healthcare requires a high degree of data standardization, effective governance and semantic interoperability between systems in the health industry. Corporate chief executive officers (CEOs) and company boards need to be more aware of their governance responsibility. This publication explains these concepts to assist the reader to collaboratively work with others to meet these challenges. With contributions from internationally distinguished authors, this book is a valuable cutting edge resource for anyone working in or for the health industry today and especially for: • Policy and decision makers, • Healthcare professionals, • Health information managers, • Health informaticians and • ICT professionals about: • Data governance. • Semantic interoperability • IT in health care • Information security governance The book is suitable for use as a basic text or reference supporting professional, undergraduate and postgraduate curricula preparing students for practice as health or IT professionals working in today's healthcare system.

The Canadian Health Information Management Lifecycle

This HIM lifecycle resource will be useful to a wide range of jurisdictions that manage health information. The document will provide a summary of the recommended leading practices and principles related to managing health information throughout its lifecycle, regardless of the type of jurisdiction or information media. -- Publisher's website.