The Office of the Chief Data Steward
The Office of the Chief Data Steward and Strategic Policy, Information Management and Data Stewardship includes Strategic IM/IT Policy, the Data Stewardship Committee Secretariat, Data Access, Research and Stewardship, Information Management, and Strategic Health Data Warehousing.
In addition to administering data access and providing secretariat services to the Data Stewardship and PharmaNet Stewardship Committees, this area provides authoritative leadership, strategic and practical advice and guidance, corporate policy direction and information management services to Ministry business areas and data custodians in the areas of IM/IT policy, data stewardship, data governance, and information management. The Chief Data Steward also administers all Ministry of Health Health Information Banks established under the eHealth Act.
There are three separate streams of activity supporting requests for access to health data through the Office of the Chief Data Steward:
