National Health Information: Better Data, Better Decisions March 1st, 2017

1. QUALITY IS NOT AN ACT:
Good habits in Health Information
Presentation to HIQA seminar, 1 March 2017
by
Dr Sarah Craig, HRB

2. Quality is not an act?
‘Quality is not an act,
it is a habit’
Aristotle

3. Who are we?
HRB NHIS – National Health Information Systems
25 Staff 5 Systems 3 Topic areas
Mental Health
Disability
Drugs and Alcohol

4. Collecting data from … 1963

5. HRB and HIQA
Membership of
Advisory
Groups
Submissions on
health
information
Piloting of Self-
Assessment
Tool
Advisory Group
on Standards

6. HRB and HIQA
HIQA
Remit
HRB

7. Let’s talk about data quality

8. Seven dimensions of data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

9. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

10. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

11. Implementing data quality

12. Implementing data quality

13. Implementing data quality
Who’s looking
at data quality
this week?

14. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

15. Implementing data quality

16. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

17. LINK
Implementing data quality
NDTRS
NPIRS
NASS
NDRDI
A single standardised database

18. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

19. Implementing data quality
Extract from LINK training material

20. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

21. Implementing data quality
LINK
Real-time
data checks

22. Implementing data quality
LINK
Improved
data accuracy

23. Implementing data quality
NDRDI
Drug-related
DeathsCoroner
Coroner
HIPE
CSO
General Mortality
Register

24. Data Quality Audits
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

25. Implementing data quality

26. Implementing data quality
Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

27. Implementing data quality

28. Implementing data quality

29. Implementing data quality

30. Implementing data quality

31. Data quality – why we do it?

32. Data quality – why we do it?
Research
• Better systems
• Controls and audits
Evidence
• Improved data quality
• Greater confidence
Action
• Influence decision-making
• Better outcomes

33. Data quality – why we do it?

34. Thank you.
Questions?