Getting involved
During Webinar 1 we asked the question:
Does your organization have a group to which informatics projects need to be proposed or prioritized?
A Strategic Initiatives group, Informatics Governance Group, or similar is often composed of members from all levels of the organization who have an interest, aptitude or who are greatly impacted by system changes. It's also a great place for folks that have completed a training program such as AITT to become involved and to add value!
Does your organization have a group to which informatics projects need to be proposed or prioritized?
A Strategic Initiatives group, Informatics Governance Group, or similar is often composed of members from all levels of the organization who have an interest, aptitude or who are greatly impacted by system changes. It's also a great place for folks that have completed a training program such as AITT to become involved and to add value!
Questions:
How many of you would like there to be such a group in your organization?
If you are at a location that has one, 3 or 4 of you said you were, are you personally involved? How did it get started? What advice would you give to others who want to start one?
How many of you would like there to be such a group in your organization?
If you are at a location that has one, 3 or 4 of you said you were, are you personally involved? How did it get started? What advice would you give to others who want to start one?
Comments & Events
Angela Merges
At NYC DOHMH, we recently created a Data Governance group to guide the development of a new information system. We would love to hear from other's experiences on how a Data Governance group was developed and maintained over-time, specifically with respect to communication and decision making.
Marigny Klaber,
Regional Epidemiologist
At El Paso County Public Health in Colorado we are in the very beginning stages of even putting together the Data Governance group. We would also appreciate any information that could be shared on this topic.
Carly Babcock -MDH-
Over in Maryland here we are also working to put together a data governance group to bring together the state partners working with opioid data.
Brynn Berger,
Epidemiologist at Columbus Public Health
In Columbus, our city Department of Technology is moving toward creation of a data governance group, which will likely include representation from the various city agencies, including public health. There is no data governance group within our health department, but we are interested in hearing others' experiences.
Holly Adams,
EH Informatics at TCHD (Colorado)
Tri-County HD has been working on an internal Informatics Governance Group for maybe 2 years. It started with just people from the Executive Management Team(EMT), and we've just added some technical people to the group. I think the EMT stage of the group is important to get buy-in and trust in decision making. The downside of not having technical people in the group to start is that non-technical people don't know what solutions should do, so it makes a slow process.