Dr. Jason Dausman is a Medical Director of Clinical Informatics and Med/Peds Hospitalist for Mercy. He has spent the last few years evangelizing the importance of Data Governance at Mercy, sharing insights with senior leaders as well as expanding the cultural change to adopt a new Data Governance framework. He believes that data governance must ensure data are accurate, consistent, secure, and accessible for the right purposes, less about governing and more about enabling. Data governance has become an essential step in improving patient care, reducing costs, and enhancing innovation. Aligning data governance with an organization's strategic goals means that Clinical leadership and key stakeholders must be part of any governance activity. 

This discussion will highlight some of the challenges and best practices in implementing Data Governance and mastering data at a large, complex health system, including the process of creating working groups and councils, establishing data quality metrics, increasing data literacy, and leveraging data analytics.  

Speaker: Doug Graham

Doug Graham is a Director of Enterprise Data Governance for Mercy Health in St. Louis Missouri. Mercy is the 6th largest Catholic health care system in the US. Doug’s experience focuses on conceptualizing and implementing data governance and data privacy frameworks as a consultant and as an organizational leader. Doug's work includes the implementation of an enterprise domain-based data governance framework and the associated data strategy and standardization alignment. This structure enables operational data quality and privacy alignment while supporting ministry strategic growth initiatives. Doug understands how people impact process improvements. He leverages this expertise to create data quality and classification frameworks that ensure successful technology-based solutions -- driving forward the strategic growth of Mercy as a healthcare ministry to people.

Speaker: Jason Dausman

Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist who serves as a Medical Director of Clinical Informatics for Mercy, one of the 20 largest U.S. health systems. He is a small business owner and entrepreneur and enjoys teaching medicine to residents and students. He has been serving as Provider Domain Steward from the early stages of Mercy's Data Governance program. In this role, he has assisted in implementing the enterprise domain-based governance framework by standardizing provider-specific data to support and align with Mercy's operational and strategic growth initiatives. He is married to Lindsay and has 3 lovely girls. He also has done extensive work teaching medicine overseas and sits on the board of Be Team International, which helps manage a full-service hospital and clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan. 

Speaker: Tamara Dusch

Tamara started her Data Governance journey seven years ago when she was asked to help stand up a new Data Governance Program for an insurance carrier. Since joining Mercy in 2023, she has continued to sharpen her Governance toolkit and challenged herself to learn nuances of healthcare data by helping stand up Data Governance framework, providing onboarding and educational support to various Stewardship roles, and integrating a new MDM platform into the Enterprise Data Governance program.