Senior data leader
Example roles/ organisations
Chief Data Officer (CDO)
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
Data managers
Responsibilities in health data governance
Creates or oversees delivery of the data strategy
Oversees the range of data-related functions in an organisation
Implements the data governance framework, ensuring policies, processes, skills and knowledge are in place to create value from data
Ensures data quality across large, integrated datasets for health research and for decision-making
Maintains accountability for the way data is managed and used across an organisation, including managing risk and compliance, setting access permissions, and assisting policy leaders with the creation and implementation of data strategies
Standardises data assets so they can be compared and used in analysis and decision-making
Collaborates with data partners and facilitates relationships with other stakeholders across the data ecosystem
Why data governance matters to them
Data governance will support:
meeting regulatory requirements around access, use and sharing of data
ensuring access, use and sharing of data meets the project or organisational objectives
confidence in decisions informed by data
confidence in the rights to access, use and share data collected or data acquired from third parties
confidence in data collected or acquired meeting the required quality standards
Key relationships that these stakeholders need to form and manage
Senior data leaders must build trustworthy relationships across the data ecosystem, engaging stakeholders both internally and with partners, to achieve strategic objectives informed by access, use and sharing of health data.
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