Data and Analytics Governance at UCSF
UCSF's Data and Analytics Governance program fosters a culture of responsible data management, privacy protection, and data-driven decision-making across the institution, which forwards UCSF’s mission of advancing health worldwide, innovative research, and education.
Data Governance can mean different things depending on who is asked; all definitions champion a simple, standard, and formal framework for managing processes, roles, and policies that are aligned to an organization’s vision and strategy of data management, access, sharing, and analysis.
UCSF is using this framework to advance the programmatic tactics and activities listed below.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES
Our Data and Analytics Governance program is focused on building capabilities across 3 areas:
Culture
Integrity
Literacy
CURRENT TACTICS AND ACTIVITIES
- Committee Structures: Committees and workgroups that make decisions about or govern specific data assets
- Business Stewardship: Roles and responsibilities associated with governing data assets
- Data Compliance: UCSF and UC policies and state and federal laws that protect the security, privacy, and confidentiality of data assets
- Data Management: Standards and conventions supported by UCSF's Enterprise Information and Analytics (EIA) Department
- Data Definitions: Official UCSF metric definitions using definitional best practices
- Reporting Governance: Dashboards and reports at UCSF, including those that are certified or designated as governed and highly trusted
- Glossary: List of commonly used terms and acronyms at UCSF
- Training and Education: Summary of data- or analytics-related trainings to build competency and literacy
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