HIM702 - Health Information Governance

Description:
This course covers the broad spectrum of strategic issues in healthcare including policies, guidelines, standards, processes, and controls required to manage and implement enterprise-level information. Treating information as a strategic asset to healthcare organizations, processes to manage various risks to the quality of information and ensure its appropriate use are covered.

Outcomes:

• Examine the strategic value of enterprise information in a healthcare setting
• Develop policies and procedures that promote enterprise-wide creation, dissemination and use of quality information
• Recommend appropriate controls to guard against risks to healthcare information
• Implement strategic level policies, processes and controls for healthcare information and decision making

Required Text(s):

• Smallwood, R. (2018). Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals. Productivity Press. ISBN 9781138568068