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RUNNING HEAD: INFORMATION GOVERNANCE 1

INFORMATION GOVERNANCE 2

Information Governance

Krishna C Sanagavarapu

Department of IT, University of the Cumberlands

ITS 833: Information Governance

Dr. Mary Cecil

September 13th, 2020

The healthcare industry is one of the largest and fastest-growing industries worldwide as in developed countries; it claims around 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (Pappas, et al, 2018). Healthcare relies on integrating sectors within the economy of a country to provide goods and services to provide quality healthcare to the patients. Healthcare provides patients with preventive, curative, palliative, and rehabilitative care. It is divided into three branches, namely, services, products, and finances. The provision of quality healthcare is the push and focus of this industry to ensure that the patients receive the best care they can ad they do everything to save the lives of people around the world.

The provision of quality healthcare comes with the cost of providing the best services to the patient and even keeping the records of the patients safe. The healthcare industry is one of the sectors where big data is produced day in day out. Big data comprises structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Structured information is the one that is organized in a specific acceptable format, and it is easy to understand and Interpret. Unstructured data is not contained in any format, and it proves hard to understand while semi-structured information is made of both firms of data, both structured and unstructured (Pappas, et al., 2018).

To provide quality care to the patients, information governance is critical in these hospital organizations. When a patient is first admitted, they are equipped with a form to fill all the necessary details that the doctors will need to perform an accurate diagnosis. Such information may include family health history and allergies. This information is then stored by the hospital and is retrieved whenever the patient will revisit the hospital. Most institutions have adopted Electronic Health Records in which the patient's records are put in the system for easy reference when needed and even storage. Both manual and electronic recording of data requires a lot of information governance protocols to contribute to the provision of quality healthcare to the patients.

Displacing these records or even hacking can present many challenges in the management of this enormous amount of data (Pappas, et al., 2018). The challenge faced in the information governance in this industry includes the capturing, storage, and the security of the obtained data. To capture accurate, clean, and complete data while transferring it to the electronic records can be challenging to the hospital personnel. Many mistakes can be made in the procedure leading to misplacement or omission of critical patient history, which can be chaotic. Also, the storage of the data obtained can be very challenging.

The enormous amount of data that id obtained in the hospital needs a vast space to be secured securely, and this requires complicated systems to accommodate this data. Many industries are proposing the use of cloud services as a solution to the massive amounts of data. The healthcare industry faces many security vulnerabilities ranging from phishing emails, malware hacking, and high-profile breaches (Green, 2017). Many hospitals have made the highlights as victims of cybercrime, which is one of the significant challenges in the data storage.

References

Mikalef, P., Krogstie, J., van de Wetering, R., Pappas, I., & Giannakos, M. (2018, January). Information Governance in the big data era: aligning organizational capabilities. In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Retrieved from https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/50504