What is Data Governance in Healthcare? Regulations, Challenges & Best Practices

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Key Healthcare Data Governance Standards

Standard/Regulation	Scope	Key Requirements
HIPAA Privacy Rule	USA: PHI use and disclosure	Minimum necessary; patient rights; authorisation
HIPAA Security Rule	USA: ePHI protection	Administrative, physical, technical safeguards
GDPR (health data)	EU: special category data	Explicit consent; DPO; impact assessments; breach notification
HL7 v2/v3	International: data exchange	Message standards for clinical data exchange
FHIR R4	International: interoperability	RESTful API standard for health data exchange
ICD-10/SNOMED CT	International: clinical coding	Standardised clinical terminology and diagnosis codes

CDMP Exam Relevance

Healthcare data governance is not a dedicated CDMP knowledge area but is relevant to multiple areas, particularly Data Governance (11%), Data Security (6%), and Data Quality (11%). Key exam topics include: the application of data governance principles to regulated industries, the role of data standards (HL7, FHIR) in enabling interoperability, the governance requirements for sensitive data (PHI, ePHI), and the challenges of data quality in clinical settings. Healthcare examples are commonly used in CDMP exam questions to illustrate governance concepts.

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