The Significance of Data Governance in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Sarah Alofaysan, Bandar Alhaqbani, Rana Alseghayyir, Maryam Omar

2014

Abstract

The paper investigates the importance of data governance to healthcare organizations. First, the paper introduces the main pillars of data governance namely, data quality, compliance, and business transformation. The paper then outlines the perceived challenges that may affect the adoption of data governance strategies. The paper then proposes a new framework for data governance within healthcare organizations. More importantly, the paper presents a case study on a leading tertiary care hospital in the Middle East in order to investigate the impact of absence of data governance. 179,450 patients’ data records were analysed within three outpatient clinics. Discrepancies in the total numbers of seen patients were discovered between electronic data records and manually collected data. The main sources of the discrepancies were identified within each clinic and were rooted to the violation of hospital policies, the disregard to data related rules and policies and the lack of accountability on the data entered into the electronic systems. Finally, the paper concludes with identifying research directions that requires further investigation in this area.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alofaysan S., Alhaqbani B., Alseghayyir R. and Omar M. (2014). The Significance of Data Governance in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-010-9, pages 178-187. DOI: 10.5220/0004738101780187

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf14,
author={Sarah Alofaysan and Bandar Alhaqbani and Rana Alseghayyir and Maryam Omar},
title={The Significance of Data Governance in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={178-187},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004738101780187},
isbn={978-989-758-010-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - The Significance of Data Governance in Healthcare - A Case Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital
SN - 978-989-758-010-9
AU - Alofaysan S.
AU - Alhaqbani B.
AU - Alseghayyir R.
AU - Omar M.
PY - 2014
SP - 178
EP - 187
DO - 10.5220/0004738101780187