Modules

Module 1: Foundations of Health Data Governance

• Key components of a governance framework

• Roles and responsibilities of data stewards

• Policies, standards, and procedures in healthcare settings

• Hands-on Exercise: Mapping existing governance gaps in your organization

Module 2: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Data Management

• HIPAA, GDPR, and local regulations

• Ethics in data sharing and secondary use

• Consent management and patient rights

• Hands-on Exercise: Drafting a data privacy policy

Module 3: Principles of Data Quality in Health Analytics

• Dimensions: accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness

• Measuring and reporting data quality

• Risk-based data quality approaches

• Hands-on Exercise: Data quality audit using a sample health dataset

Module 4: Data Standards and Interoperability

• HL7, SNOMED CT, ICD-10

• Interoperability challenges in healthcare systems

• Metadata and health data vocabularies

• Hands-on Exercise: Standardizing health records for reporting

Module 5: Data Lifecycle Management in Healthcare

• Collection, storage, usage, archiving, and disposal

• Version control and audit trails

• Tools for managing data workflows

• Hands-on Exercise: Designing a secure data lifecycle plan

Module 6: Data Stewardship and Accountability

• Establishing a data stewardship program

• Identifying key roles and workflows

• Promoting data ownership at all levels

• Hands-on Exercise: Assigning stewardship roles within a sample team

Module 7: Data Quality Improvement Strategies

• Root cause analysis for poor data

• Continuous quality improvement (CQI) tools

• Implementing health data quality dashboards

• Hands-on Exercise: Building a quality improvement plan for maternal health data

Module 8: Tools and Technologies for Data Governance

• Health Information Systems (DHIS2, OpenMRS, EMRs)

• Data quality tools and governance dashboards

• Integration with BI and reporting tools

• Hands-on Exercise: Evaluating tools for your health facility

Module 9: Organizational Change and Governance Culture

• Change management strategies

• Aligning governance with strategic goals

• Training and capacity building

• Hands-on Exercise: Designing a staff sensitization session

Module 10: Case Study – Building a Governance and Quality Framework

• Analyze real-world challenges in governance implementation

• Evaluate interventions and outcomes

• Group presentation on governance models

• Hands-on Exercise: Develop a governance and data quality plan for a health program