Title: Information Governance as Determinants of Healthcare Service Delivery in Selected Tertiary Healthcare Institutions in SouthWest, Nigeria
Author(s): Adeojo, Michael. Babatunde; Alegbeleye, Gabriel Oluwabunmi; Unegbu, Vincent E.; Ikonne, Chinyere N.
Publication Year: 2022; Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 162-175

The importance of health to any person, community or nation cannot be over emphasised. Healthcare service delivery is a vital element of any health system and it is required for human continuous existence. These services have been hindered by a number of factors and having policies for systematic collection of data and the procedures for security of data and policies to cover such items as accountability, transparency, integrity, protection, compliance, retention and disposition of data which are embedded in information governance may help to improve healthcare service delivery. This study investigates the information governance prevalent in the hospitals to ascertain how it may influence healthcare service delivery. The study adopts survey research design. The population of this study is 22,422, a sample size of 393 was selected across the THIs in South-West, Nigeria. Null hypothesis, which states that, Information governance has no significant influence on healthcare service delivery in selected tertiary healthcare institutions in South-West, Nigeria, was rejected. Relatively, availability (? = 1.544, t = 3.493, p<0.05), and disposition \ (? = 0.983, t = 3.230) were shown to have a significant positive influence on Healthcare Service Delivery in selected tertiary healthcare institutions in South-West, Nigeria. The study therefore concluded that, sustainable healthcare service delivery is a function of information governance. Thus, the tempo of information governance in tertiary healthcare institutions in South-West, Nigeria should be sustained