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dc.contributor.authorWere, Victor E
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-14T11:58:43Z
dc.date.available2016-11-14T11:58:43Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11295/97124
dc.description.abstractThere is an increase in adoption of information communication technology in the health care by most of the developing countries. This has resulted in existence of most of their healthcare data in electronic form as a paradigm shift from the more traditional manual form. There is need to derive value from these data by making more evidence based decisions and reporting one version of the truth. Research shows that data governance initiatives help to improve data quality. Health workforce data is critical in health care workforce planning and subsequent health services delivery in any country. The study focused on assessing data governance at the existing Kenya Health Professional Regulatory authorities and proposing a data governance model that can be used to establish a data governance program at the authorities. It further sought to determine the drivers and barriers of data governance at the authorities. The study used data governance decisions areas based on Khatri and Brown, 2010.Qualitative and quantitative research methods were used in this study to collect data. The study results identified maintenance of quality of data; customer satisfaction; data security and control; operational efficiency as the drivers of the authorities to adopting formal data governance. Similarly, the authorities are faced with lack of data governance awareness; inadequate management ownership and support as well as limited funding and resource allocations as barrier to data governance. In addition, the study proposed that for the authorities to increase their data governance they need to identify their data as an asset; initiate more data quality management mechanism to increase data quality; restrict access of their data by strengthening their data controls. Furthermore, they need to create awareness; increase management ownership and support; allocate funding and resources to the initiatives. Metadata and data life cycle were found not to be significant factors of data governance at the authorities. The finding of this study can be used to establish a data governance program for health regulatory authorities in Kenya. In order to evaluate the impact of the model, there is need to implement the model and conduct a longitudinal study to determine the model impact. Key Word: Data governance, data quality, healthcare delivery, healthcare systems, health regulationen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Nairobien_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectKenya Health Professionals Regulatory Authoritiesen_US
dc.titleAn Assessment of Data Governance at Kenya Health Professionals Regulatory Authoritiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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