Data Quality in General Practice
Quality data is the foundation of eHealth; of chronic disease management and prevention, and is vital for effective and efficient health planning and service delivery, leading to systematic care, appropriate and accurate transfer of patient information, and contributing to practice efficiency and viability.
Data are of high quality if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning.
A number of data quality frameworks, tools and supporting resources are outlined below. These tools can be used by general practice or by organisations supporting general practice to improve the quality of clinical data within general practice.
Data Quality
Assisting general practice with the improvement of clinical data quality is of a high priority for the eHealth Support Officers Program. As such eHealth Officers across the country have worked together to develop a framework for data quality and number of resources to assist practices with this activity.
National eHSOP Data Quality Guide
The National eHealth Support Officer Program, made up of all the ehealth Support Officers in the State based Organisations for Division around Australia, has developed the National eHSOP Data Quality Guide and a number of supporting resources that can be used by Divisions of General Practice or by general practice themselves to assist with the improvement of clinical data quality.
The purpose of the Data Quality Guide is to improve the quality of clinical data being used within a general practice and the quality of data and information products that are used for planning, reporting and decision-making purposes across the health sector.
Other Resources
Clinical Software Training Resources
