An Information Governance (IG) framework covers all staff that creates, store, share and dispose of information. It sets out the procedures for sharing information with stakeholders, partners, and suppliers. It concerns the management of all paper and electronic information and its associated systems within the organization, as well as information held outside the organization that affects its regulatory and legal obligations. Access the AHIMA IG Toolkit and answer the following questions in narrative and paragraph format and be specific in your answers.

1. Describe and express the principles of Information Governance.

2. Who is responsible (each person and department) for Information Governance within a healthcare organization and what are their roles in IG?

3. What components would be included in an IG policy and procedure?

4. Create an Information Governance objective plan initiative for your organization

An information asset is described as A business application, system or solution that creates, receives, maintains or transmits sensitive information, such as Protected Health Information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), payment card data, company proprietary business plans or financial data, etc., the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of which must be safeguarded for the sake of overall business risk management.

1. Choose an information asset in your organization or any healthcare organization and describe its relationship in the support of organizational goals and strategies.

2. Prepare a risk analysis on the information asset you chose. What are the potential threats to the asset you chose?

3. Are there policies and procedures within the organization to identify risks?

4. Identify how you will mitigate the risk should there be a breach, theft, etc., depending on the asset you choose.

A strategic plan is a set of processes carried out to identify the future desired by the organization and to develop guidelines for making the decisions leading to such a future. When an organization behaves reliably and consistently over time, it can be said to have a strategy. The strategy is a means that the organization chooses in order to move from its current situation to a desired situation in the future

1. Name the indicators for a strategic planning process (what needs to be considered for a departmental or organizational strategic plan?)

2. Discuss the departments involved in the strategic planning process

3. Create and discuss the strategic planning steps and process

4. How do you measure success or the need for revision?