Question

Discuss the role of HIM professionals in enterprise information management, information governance, stewardship, and life cycle management.

Answer 1

Ans) Role of HIM professionals in enterprise information management, information governance, stewardship, and life cycle management:

Information Governance:

- To ensure a formalized oversight framework and leadership for the advancement of policies, processes, and standards for the adoption, implementation, maintenance, interoperability, and appropriate use of data and information.

To enhance the value of information assets and their strategic uses to improve clinical and organizational performance, compliance, and ethical stewardship.

Access, Security, and Confidentiality:

- To ensure that personally identifiable and other confidential health and business information are available only to authorized persons and used only for authorized purposes.

To ensure that security risks and vulnerabilities are proactively managed.

Information Integrity and Quality:

- To continuously improve the value and trustworthiness of the information asset by ensuring that data and content are valid, accurate, reliable, current, and comprehensive, and that they reflect the continuum of care.

Information Design and Capture:

- To improve the efficiency and quality of data collection, capture, downstream information use, interoperability, and reuse through effective information architecture, content definitions, and standards.

- To enhance the satisfaction of those responsible for capture and reduce costly redundancy through standardization.

Content and Records Management:

- To maintain designated records sets, including legal health records, and other types of records in accordance with the clinical and business needs of the organization and all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

To deploy explicit policies and best practices for management, retention, and disposition that account for all records in all media.

Information Analysis and Use:

- To ensure that the requisite clinical and non-clinical data and information are available, trusted, and usable by those who rely on them to make decisions to improve health and healthcare.