Date of Award

8-27-2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Computer and Information Science (MCIS)

Department

Information Science

First Advisor

Elizabeth Pierce

Abstract

Data governance as a discipline is applicable to encompass in any organization. For this thesis, the focus of our research setting is the data governance in electronic health records (EHR). This thesis presents a literature survey by analyzing 87 articles through over ten years period (from January 2004 – December 2014) related to EHRs. We found our articles written in English language from database MEDLINE that have indexing journals in all fields of medicine and related topics. For several years EHRs have been developed by different providers and researchers, who in turn, put patients’ health in danger. IBM data governance maturity assessment framework was followed closly to categorize our existing materials. Framework consists of eleven areas (dimensions): data risk management and compliance, value creation, organizational structure and awareness, policy, stewardship, data quality management, information lifecycle management, security and privacy, data architecture, classification & metadata, and audit information logging and reporting. Since data quality is a crucial aspect of patient healthcare records, therefore, most research efforts their concentrations on data quality. It is hoped that this research contributes to relieving and improving the worldwide problem of inaccurate patient data and permanent supervision thereon.

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