With the explosion of data in the healthcare system, traditional policies and procedures are often inadequate to assess the potential risks in data generation, data sharing and data storage. External forces such as federal and state laws and regulations may mandate certain actions to protect information and report breeches in information. This week’s discussion focuses on the assessment of the current state in preparation for developing an Information governance strategic plan.
Option 2: A common strategy is to identify a risk profile of the organization information. To begin this assessment, the organization needs to analyze the enterprise information and how it is managed. What is enterprise information management? What are the information sources? What are the common protocols? What is the data integration process and metadata management? What are the data resources?
