The Florida Department of Health is a large state governmental organization of 14,000 employees with the mission to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida. To achieve its mission, the Department collects, manages, and disseminates public health data which is crucial to understanding and preventing disease and improving service delivery. This data often comes from multiple sources, in various formats, with varying degrees of quality and compliance, creating data siloes that require a strong enterprise data governance framework to effectively make data-driven decisions with data assets.

The Department is embarking on a journey to modernize its data ecosystem to provide a robust, adaptable, and response-ready infrastructure that delivers organizational value. Highlighting a methodical federated data governance process, we provide tangible examples of how to cultivate committed leadership, design effective and sustained collaboration, and create and operationalize a uniformed enterprise data governance framework in a large organization.

• Disseminate leading practices on effective enterprise data governance for large organizations.
• Discuss federated data governance policy development and build internal ownership and commitment to data governance.
• Define a roadmap for setting enterprise data governance as an organizational priority.
• Highlight challenges and lessons learned along the journey.
• Describe the use of advanced technology to operationalize and automate data governance policies and processes.

Speaker: Louann Seguin

Louann Seguin, MBA, CDMP has over 20 years of experience leading enterprise-wide data and analytics initiatives in the public and private sectors, including healthcare, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and agriculture. Skilled in crafting and implementing innovative data and analytics strategies incorporating people, process, and technology pillars, both from an originating and a transformative perspective. She is currently the Chief Data Officer with the State of Florida Department of Health, guiding the Department’s Data Modernization journey that includes implementing Data Governance, upskilling the workforce with Data Literacy goals, and modernizing full-cloud technology to support data governance, data management, and analytics.

Speaker: Allison Culpepper

Allison Culpepper serves as the Data Governance Manager at the Florida Department of Health (Department). With a focus on collaboration, she works across the Department to establish data standards and promote best practices for data management and governance. Previously, Allison served as a manager of data acquisition at the Department, leading the facilitation of electronic data exchange, integration, and file movement between external healthcare stakeholders and the Department, with a specific focus on electronic laboratory reporting, electronic case reporting, and syndromic surveillance. With 13 years of experience in public health informatics and health information technology, Allison brings extensive expertise to her role.