Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals: A Practical Approach

About Robert F. Smallwood

Robert F. Smallwood is the author of nine books in the past ten years. Smallwood is a technologist and an industry-leading author keynote speaker consultant and educator. He is the author of Information Governance for Executives (CreateSpace 2016) Introduction to Information Governance (CreateSpace 2016) and the pioneering text Information Governance: Concepts Strategies and Best Practices (Wiley 2014) which is being used to teach information governance (IG) to graduate students from the University of Oxford to University of Michigan University of British Columbia San Jose State and other major universities worldwide. He is also the author of Managing Electronic Records: Methods Best Practices and Technologies (Wiley 2013); Safeguarding Critical E-Documents: Implementing a Program a Secure Confidential Information Assets (Wiley 2012) and several other books. Mr. Smallwood was also the leading IG blogger in 2015/16 in the Information Governance profession and has published more than 100 articles and given more than 50 conference presentations on content management and IG. Smallwood is a founding partner of IMERGE Consulting and heads up the Institute for Information Governance. Since 2014 he has trained more professionals in IG than any instructor worldwide and in 2016 created an Information Governance course for LinkedIn which is marketed to its 500 million+ business users in LinkedIn. Mr. Smallwood has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology industry and holds an MBA from Loyola University of New Orleans. He has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Contributors to the IG Industry by the 2014-16 Information Governance Conference. In addition to teach IG courses to corporate clients he has been a guest lecturer at San Jose State University and University of British Columbia and he consults with Fortune 500 companies and governments to assist them in making technology decisions and implementations. Some of his past research training and consulting clients include the Ochsner Medical center Kaweah Delta Health Care Distrist U.S. FDA National Archives & Records Administration Verizon Bank for International Settlements World Bank Johnson & Johnson Apple AT&T the Supreme Court of Canada Xerox and IBM. Smallwood was an AIIM International chapter founder and president and a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors and is active in ARMA International.