Assessment 4 Instructions: Data Reporting and Management
Create a data map that depicts enterprise architecture, data integration, and use of multiple data sources. Write a
final data management and governance plan (4-5 pages) that enables a health care organization to manage and
govern its data, along with a 1-page executive summary.
Data mapping processes are vital for health care organizations to do all of the following:
Determine organizational data needs.
Identify how data interacts within multiple sources.
Maintain data integrity.
Data maps are a road map to data collection, retrieval, and storage. They support data quality, integration, strategy,
process improvement for patient outcomes, and business intelligence practices. Business intelligence, the practice
that uses tools to analyze data for reporting, begins by identifying data sources. Ultimately, good business
intelligence depends on good data and clearly defined mechanisms that spell out how data from one system maps
to another.
Working with multiple data sources or systems is often challenging for health care organizations. IT departments in
the health care industry are responsible for making sure an infrastructure is in place to support multi-source
integration and systems communications. As you are the privacy and security manager for Independence Medical
Center, your boss, the CIO, has asked you to construct a data map for the organization. This data map needs to take
into account relevant data management and governance best practices for data retrieval and storage. After creating
your data map, you will also compile a final data management and governance plan (DMGP), including a one-page
executive summary.
Introduction
Working with multiple data sources creates challenges for many health care organizations. In this final component of
your Data Management and Governance Plan, you will construct a data map to meet organizational needs for data
use and integrity and to facilitate necessary reporting. In addition, you will compile a report to support the use of
data mapping for effective retrieval and storage processes.
Preparation
To successfully complete this assessment, you will need to revisit the work you did in your first three assessments:
Assessment 1: You wrote a recommendation to create a DMGP framework for Independence Medical Center.
You also created a diagram to visually represent your proposed framework.
Assessment 2: You defined data elements and formats that support enterprise information management and
data integration in an Excel spreadsheet. You also wrote a data discovery report that identified the data
quality issues Independence Medical Center was experiencing and recommended strategies for addressing
and preventing them from occurring in the future.
Assessment 3: You created a data integration strategy map that illustrated a strategic framework,
accountability, and quality and control mechanisms. You also wrote a workplace brief to accompany the
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simply copy and paste your first three assessments to create this one. Instead, you will need to selectively decide
which elements from the first three assessments to incorporate into this one. You will be condensing the most critical
information to carry forward.
Instructions
For this assessment, you are preparing for a meeting with your boss, the CIO. He appreciates all of the work you
have done to date. He is now asking you to compile all of your previous findings into a final data governance and
management plan (DMGP). He has also asked you to prepare a one-page executive summary that concisely
highlights Independence Medical Center’s background information, identified problems, recommendations, and
conclusions.
You realize that as part of your DMGP, you also need to create a data map to illustrate Independence Medical
Center’s data sources, collection points, and storage systems. Your data map will serve as the prototype for the
ongoing definition of organizational data needs and data integrity requirements.
This assessment consists of these three parts:
1. Data map.
2. Final data management and governance plan (DMGP).
3. Executive summary.