Semester project

UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS

ITS 833 INFORMATION GOVERNANCE

2018 FALL – MAIN TERM

CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL INFORMATION GOVERNANCE PROGRAM:

PHASE I:

Please read and familiarize yourself with the general description for your research project

included in the CONTENT section of iLearn.

You are the team leader/chair for the Information Governance Committee/Team responsible for

implementing a company wide information governance program for your organization. You

team has met on one occasion and has identified an initial set of goals and challenges for the

organization in the development and implementation of the company’s IG program. Your

second meeting with the team is fast approaching and you have told your team members that

during this next meeting you will discuss with them the overall plan and the steps that the team

will take in order to implement information governance in the organization. In order to be

prepared for that meeting, please do the following:

1. Conduct the necessary research to familiarize yourself with different organizations,

associations, affiliates and accrediting agencies who can provide guidance on the

implementation of information governance in the health care industry. Please summarize

and explain the results of your research.

2. Develop/explain the tasks/steps/order for designing and implementing an Information

Governance (IG) program at CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL. I am NOT asking you to

give me “the” final Information Governance Program itself. It is far too early in the

course for you to be able to develop an Information Governance program. What I am

asking you to do is to develop a plan that sets out the tasks to be accomplished and the

order (steps) in which the tasks will need to be performed in order to design and

implement an IG plan for your organization. This should be the blueprint that you and

your team will follow for the next 18 months that have been projected from the date of

your first IG Committee/Team meeting to the final implantation of the IG Program. That

is, it should explain how you and your team will go about the business of designing and

implementing the IG program for the company. It is NOT the IG Program itself. This

should be something that you will give your team members to follow, as the “master

plan” for accomplishing the goal of IG at CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL, and what each

team member’s role is in accomplishing that goal. That is, what tasks are they assigned?

What will need to be completed or accomplished before they can begin their respective

tasks? You may use diagrams, tables, and any other references that assist in the

explanation of your plan for designing and implementing a program of Information

Governance at CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL. However, you may NOT substitute your

table or diagram for a complete narrative explanation. Remember, where you formulated

any portion of your overall program based upon information from the research you

conducted in question 1 above, you must reference your sources in order to avoid

suggestions that you have plagiarized.

3. Recall, the author of your text has repeatedly emphasized that above all else you must

operate within the confines of the law. Assume CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL is located

in Louisville, Kentucky. Conduct the necessary research to familiarize yourself with both

the federal and state laws that will must be taken into consideration and/or which will

have a direct impact on the health care industry, and therefore the structure and

implementation of your organization’s information governance program. You must be

able to explain to your team members what these laws are, their sources, how they affect

your organization, and what you will do to implement your information governance

program within the confines of these laws. Please, in writing, provide a detailed

explanation of the results of your search for legal information.

Phase I of this semester long research project is worth 10% of your overall semester grade. The

quality of your work on this phase of the project can impact your final semester grade by an

entire letter grade. Do not minimize the importance of this assignment.

Also, do not expect that you can do anything less than doctorial quality work and receive a

satisfactory grade. The above three questions must be properly researched and explained. Also,

please expect that your paper will be checked for plagiarism. Whenever you quote directly from

a source, include the quotation in the appropriate quotes and cite the source. When you

summarize information form a source, use proper references and endnotes or footnotes in enough

detail that the reader can go directly to your source reference.

Plagiarism and all other forms of cheating will not be tolerated.

Your paper should be submitted on or before the deadline using the proper submission link in

iLearn, Content section, folder for Semester Research Project. When submitting make sure to

check the appropriate box for submitting the paper to SafeAssign for checking against the global

database. The paper should be uploaded in a WORD format. It should contain a cover page which

includes your full name and student identification number, along with some identifier showing that

it is phase I of Fall 2018 ITS 833 – Main Term. The paper should include page number on each

page, should have a 1 inch margin on all sides, should contain a table of contents and all pages

should be numbers. Single space the body of the paper a double space between paragraphs.

Subheadings should be in bold and should be on the left margin. There should be a blank line

between the subheading and the first paragraph following the subheading. Please use complete

citations in the body of the paper, following direct citations. Also, include the complete source

cited at the end of the paper on a REFERENCE PAGE Where you summarize but do not quote

directly, use endnote number references in the body of the paper at the conclusion of the section

summarized. For summaries, also include a section at the end of your paper for complete citations

to the source summarized. This will be called “ENDNOTES”. In addition, please include this

endnote citation in your REFERENCES. That is, at the end of the paper there will be at least two

appendices, one for your ENDNOTES that will contain a number reference and the complete

citation to the sources summarized. Following this will be the REFERENCES page that will

include all sources where you directly quoted sources in the body of your paper and in addition

will include a citation for all sources that you summarized. Remember, your REFERNCES will

include a list of BOTH sources quoted and sources summarized, and will be listed in the order in

which they appear in your paper. Your ENDNOTES page will precede the REFERENCES page

and will include only sources summarized, and will listed in the same order in which they appear

in your paper.

The Deadline for submitting Phase I of your project is September 16, 2018 no later than 11:30

p.m. and WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE.