From the course: Data Governance for the Healthcare Industry
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Measuring and evaluating data quality in healthcare
From the course: Data Governance for the Healthcare Industry
Measuring and evaluating data quality in healthcare
- [Instructor] Effective governance requires measurement. Without an objective assessment of your healthcare data quality, governance becomes guesswork. In this video, we'll explore how to integrate data quality assessment into your governance framework, creating transparency and accountability throughout your organization. After all, you can't govern what you can't measure. Data quality assessment begins with establishing clear, measurable standards through your governance structure. These standards should reflect both organizational needs and regulatory requirements with thresholds that define quality. For example, your data governance committee might establish that patient phone numbers must be confirmed as current within 30 days of each visit, or that medication reconciliation must be completed for 100% of inpatient discharges. To assess data quality, you leverage six key evaluation methods. Automated scanning tools can quickly find problems like misinformation or duplicate…
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