Table 3:
Natural and legal bodies supervising the national health IG program and their job description.
| Authority | Job description |
|---|---|
| Minister of Health and Medical Education at the national level (Board of directors/head in health care organizations) | Responsibility, accountability, and provision of all necessary resources related to the health IG program |
| Director of the national health IG program (in health care organizations) | Coordination, development, and implementation of the program, resource identification and proper use, managerial responsibilities, identification of information management rules and regulations, development and implementation of a monitoring system,identification of workforce training needs |
| Information governance and management advisor (in health care organizations) | Consultation services for the program design and implementation, evaluation and improvement of existing policies, and design, documentation, and adoption of the best practices |
| Director of information security and confidentiality (in health care organizations) | Provision of counseling and relevant content, data privacy protection, ensuring the legal, ethical and proper use and retention of information, information accessibility monitoring and audit, coordination of relevant programs |
| Director of risk management (in health care organizations) | Promotion of data protection culture, provision of important points for managing risks and events threatening all kinds of data and information |
| Data steward (in health care organizations) | Development of policies and methods, organizing and implementing policies and practices for monitoring published reports, addressing any issue related to data integrity and quality, communication with employees, identification of the existing source of information and data, management of different data, security and privacy of different data |
| Executive teams/working groups of the health IG program (in health care organizations) | Identification of new opportunities, promotion of the culture of IG, monitoring related policies, processes and problems, security and confidentiality, integrity and quality of information, information design and gain, document content and information management, information analysis, application, and exchange |
| Directors of different departments (in health care organizations) | Ensuring the implementation of policies and procedures, application of a monitoring program, adherence to principles and all relevant laws, standards, policies, and procedures, subordinates’ awareness of the rules, policies, standards, and responsibilities in relation to the health IG program |
| Director of health information management (in health care organizations) | Collaboration in design, implementation, and guidance, strategic planning, monitoring the organization’s compliance with the relevant policies, identification of threats and opportunities, evaluation of positive effects of the health IG program |
| Staff of health care organizations | Safe creation, application, processing, retention, and deletion of information and data, proper use of IT systems, participation in relevant training courses |
| Steering Committee of the health IG program | Development of policies, standards, evaluation tools, and reporting tools |
| IG Council (Ministry of Health and Medical Education) | Valid source for advice and guidance on program implementation, preparation of a collection of important information related to data privacy, security, and management, development of IG networks (strategic information governance networks, abbreviated as SIGNs) in universities of medical sciences |
| Health IG Committee (in health care organizations) | Development of an appropriate framework, strategy, and working plan, coordination of staff activities, monitoring and auditing the IG program activities, support for the executive team, discussion on lessons learned from the health IG events |
| Health Information Management Association | Provision of educational information and resources, organizing conferences and workshops related to the health IG program |