Governance

The Office of the CRIO has prioritized a collaborative approach to unifying research informatics at OHSU.  Governance groups work closely with a variety of research enterprise informatics stakeholders across the institution, including regulatory and compliance, Research Data Warehouse, centers of innovation, EPIC for Research, training and fellowship programs, university shared resources, academic departments and centers, leadership councils, research asset management, research computing, and technology transfer.

CRIO Governance Structure

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee informs the OHSU Research Informatics strategic vision.

Goals include providing guidance for, prioritizing, and endorsing informatics initiatives.

This group is chaired by:

  • Bonnie Nagel, Vice Chair of Research

Informatics Governance Group

The purpose of the Information Governance Group is to: 1) provide leadership, communication and collaboration across the various OHSU units that apply informatics, analytics and information technology to improve knowledge discovery and human health; and 2) ensure that scarce resources are optimally allocated to projects aligned with OHSU's strategic vision. The IGG is under the direction of OHSU executive leadership and in collaboration with a wider stakeholder advisory board.

The Informatics Governance Group serves the following functions:

  • Strategic vision: Creates and maintains a strategic vision for advanced informatics
  • Harmonization: Identifies and pursues synergies across units that comprise the IGG, aiming to provide value to the institution through collaboration across operational and academic activities
  • Project/program approval and prioritization: Reviews projects and recommends prioritization of OHSU advanced informatics data science initiatives and programs to ensure alignment with strategic vision and optimize allocation of scarce resources
  • Project oversight: Monitors progress of projects that are being executed; ensures required resources are available and assist with management of issues and risks
  • Communication: Solicits feedback from relevant communities across OHSU and communicates how these are integrated into the vision, prioritization and implementation of initiatives

The IGG is comprised of senior leaders in informatics from across the OHSU enterprise and is chaired by the CRIO:

  • David Dorr, Chief Research Information Officer

Research Data Governance Committee

The Research Data Governance Committee is a subcommittee of the Data Governance Steering Committee, which is chaired by OHSU Chief Information Officer. The RDGC is chaired by the CRIO and reports to the parent committee.

Key goals of the Research Data Governance Committee include:

  • Develop a unified approach to implementing the various strategies and tactics from OHSU's strategic plan
  • Assess overall demand and use for data and work on strategically meeting that demand
  • Set policies for research data best practices including data storage, coding, sharing and analysis
  • Assess and prioritize key data elements and data types related to research and facilitate standardization where elements are high priority
  • Recommend data quality management, curation and harmonization approaches
  • Facilitate good research data management including standardized mapping, integration, provenance, preservation, maintenance, storage and access
  • Address internal and external access, storage and retrieval through policy and governance, working with the ITG Information Privacy and Security Committee to maintain security, privacy and confidentiality
  • Communicate best practices and requirements around data coding, standards, use and policies

Members of the RDGC include representatives from research informatics stakeholders across OHSU.  This group is chaired by:

  • Robin Champieux, University Librarian, OHSU Library
  • David Dorr, Chief Research Information Officer

Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee

The purpose of this governance structure is to provide guidance and oversight for requests to use and/or implement artificial intelligence (AI) tools at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

The governance structure will ensure that in-scope AI initiatives align with OHSU strategic goals, meet ethical and privacy standards, and are transparent and accountable to stakeholders in research, administration, innovation, education, and health care.

Chair:

  • David Dorr, Chief Research Information Officer

Executive Sponsor:

  • Bridget Barnes, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer

Health Information Exchange Governance Group

This group helps guide the use Health Information Exchange (HIE) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Goals are to support research, innovation and quality improvement via the use of HIE.  This includes vetting, setting guidelines for and approving the use of HIE applications.

This group is chaired by:

  • Cort Garrison, Chief Health Information Officer
  • David Dorr, Chief Research Information Officer