Information Quality in Healthcare: Coherence of Data Compared between Organization's Electronic Patient Records

Abstract

In this paper we present a case-based analysis of health care data quality problems in a situation, where data of diabetes patient are combined from different information systems. Nationally uniform integrated health care information systems shall become more important when meeting the demands of patient centered care in the future. During the development of several electronic health records it has become clear that the integration of the data is still challenging. Data collected in various systems can have quality faults, it can for instance be non-coherent or include contradictory information, or the desired data is completely missing, as proved to be in our case as well. The quality of the content of patient information and the process of data production constitute a central part of good patient care, and more attention should be paid to them.