Our Vision
To promote and enable the intersection of policies, processes, technology, and people responsible for using and managing data as a secure and strategic asset.
Our Mission
The purpose of the Maryland Department of Health is to promote and improve the health and safety of all Marylanders through
disease prevention, access to care, quality management and community
engagement.
The mission of the MDH Data Office, established by Executive Order 01.01.2021.09, is establishing and implementing the necessary policies, processes, and standards that support creating, maintaining, analyzing, and making high-quality data accessible across all of MDH’s programs, including managing and integrating data assets that support a self-service model to drive decision-making, research, strategy, and public engagement by internal and external stakeholders.
MDH Data Office aims to transform MDH’s isolated views of individual businesses insights to a unified enterprise view with a vision of whole being greater than the sum of the parts. This is the first axiom of MDH’s data strategy, to pioneer our business decision-making process by transforming information to insights, data to discernment, and decision-making through enterprise data governance & analytics. In this way, the MDH Data Office supports the mission of MDH by increasing value of MDH data so that it may be leveraged to gain greater insight targeted response to and improvement of the health of Marylanders.
Guiding Goals and Objectives
Guiding Principles
Roles and Responsbilities
The MDH Data Office is responsible for establishing data governance and engaging MDH in the key data management knowledge areas: Data Architecture, Data Modeling & Design, Data Storage & Operations, Data Security, Data Integration & Interoperability, Document & Content Management, Reference & Master Data, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, managing Metadata, and regulating Data Quality.
The roles of our team include Data Analytics, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Inventory and Cataloging and driving innovation with Data Science (DS) Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The MDH Data Office also engages in critical missions for the State Data Office, including the submission of an annual data inventory, advising on best data practices, and provide data management insight on behalf of MDH.
Leadership
Katyayani Bhide, Agency Data Officer
