ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to enhance the understanding of how data governance and analytics can help address current issues in the Australian context of health care in order to achieve better information outcomes in the acute health sector. It explores some of the hospital- and health organization-based data governance models that can enable the conversion of data into quality information, which can then inform the acute health care sector in particular. The application of the proposed data governance model to a health care provider is depicted and explained as follows: CXX-executive sponsor, data owners, governance working teams and business data stewards. The series of information-related scenarios are drawn from the primary health care provider contexts, and these cover clinical and nonclinical areas in order to demonstrate that there are significant dependencies and impacts for data across the board. Each scenario is considered from the perspective of how effective data governance contributes to a better outcome.
