Data Quality Team and Compliance

I'm going to go off and talk a bit on Data Quality Teams and Compliance.  I think there is a constant struggle about who owns the data and who is responsible for it.  Data Quality teams began to get some attention a few years ago in the US and you are starting to see the trend in the EU. Typically the Data Quality team resided under the IT or operations wing and it was put in place to review data going in and out of systems for completeness and accuracy.  It was basically a check to what the day to day operations folks were doing and to catch issues.  I'm going to suggest leveraging these teams if they exist to do compliance reviews.  Who owns the DQT  is always a good question. Being part of IT doesn't really give it independence and I really don't think a compliance team would have a budget for them.  Being part of operations makes sense but there is usually a struggle about cost and value they bring to a organization. Smaller companies I really don't see being able to do this. However with EMR,EHR,Billing and PHA data all going into multiple systems you really need some sort of audit process in place. Also you need to think about HIE's and making sure the data gets and audit before it gets into those systems.  Unique ID trackers are going to be required...  So is your head spinning?  Not only are you going to need legal, clinical and regulatory experience on your team but now also IT?   I see alot of blended roles here and that leads to confusion on independence and oversight. Is your data analysis on loan to you from IT  really trying to make sure IT or Compliance is happy? Who pays the salary and does the review? It's all questions you need to ask.