Solutions for data management in the health sector

The lack of data for many indicators and the existence of significant gaps in the availability and comparability of data is a problem of global interest, felt by all authorities and agencies specialized in data collection, analysis and use. Their objective is to provide data and indicators of good quality, which will help to correctly inform the political decision-makers and to solve the inequalities in the field of health. Thus, this paper aims to provide clear and coherent solutions to a number of problems identified in data management in general, and in data in the medical sector in particular. Also, the added value of this paper consists in a case study, which presents an x-ray of the current situation of data quality through the existing metadata for each of the analyzed sources. The research methodology used in the paper includes both a thorough analysis of the literature that identifies the main data problems and provides related solutions, as well as a comparative analysis on the quality of health data, using metadata from three sources and distinct levels of aggregation: National (Romania), European and Global.