Information Governance for Analytics Support: Remember the Life Cycle Component

• Published in: Journal of AHIMA Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 38 - 40
• Main Authors: Houser, Shannon H, Slovensky, Donna J, Wang, Luona
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Health Information Management Association 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Accountability; Archives & records; Clinical Governance; Colleges & universities; Costs; Decision making; Decision Making, Organizational; Efficiency, Organizational; Health administration; Health informatics; Health Information Management; Humans; Information management; Information sources; Models, Organizational; Quality Control
• ISSN: 1060-5487

[...]Big Data is big business, encompassing multiple professions and industries, and consuming vast amounts of money. The model in Figure 2 above is slightly more complex than the first model, and includes a destroy decision, but still omits nuances that are critical to robust information resource management, such as data validation, security backups, and value assessment prior to making the archive or destroy decision. Because current technological capability gives so many options for cost-acceptable data capture and storage, many organizations haven't been adequately motivated to make structured business decisions from a life cycle perspective that are responsive to information expansion issues. [...]skilled informatics and analytics expertise are needed to select the "best" data from among redundant sources to inform analytical models, and more time and financial resources are required to clean data prior to analysis. The groups below are among the important stakeholders to consider when defining the life cycle ending point for various data maintained for clinical, business, and analytical purposes: * Business units (legal, human resources, finance) * Research and analytics units * Information security, privacy, and compliance * Contract management * Records management * Information technology * Patients/consumers * Business partners In addition to noting their primary environment as internal or external to the organization, relationships among the various stakeholders are important to consider as well. At its core, the primary goal of such a program should be "defensible disposal' of data based on assessment of legal and regulatory guidelines, as well as the information's value to...