HIQA Barbara Foley

Information management

standards for national health

and social care data

collections

Barbara Foley

[email protected]

Health Information Function of HIQA

Sets standards for all aspects of health information

Provide leadership in defining the health information landscape in Ireland

Enhance the foundations required to enable eHealth in Ireland

Drive improvements in quality of health information

Implement Business Intelligence

- National Patient Experience Survey

Health is information intensive

Current health information landscape in

Ireland is complex

Catalogue of national health and social care

data collections

Publications by HIQA in this area include...

There is a need for standards to drive the quality of health information to ultimately improve the safety

and quality of patient care

National health and social care data collections enable:

Development of standards

Expert Advisory Group

Public consultation

Additional engagement

with key stakeholders

10 Information management

standards

Person-centred Governance,

leadership and

management

Statement of purpose

Legislation and codes of

practice

Health information standards

Data quality

Use of information

Information governance

Workforce

Use of resources

Scope and Purpose of the standards

‘Managing organisation’ of national health and social care data collections

e.g. NOCA – Irish Hip Fracture database

Provide a framework of best practice to enable national data collections collect quality data

Work towards advancing improvements in national health information

1. Statement of purpose

2. Statement of Information Practices

3. Data quality framework

4. Data quality statement

5. Data dictionary

Five Quality Improvement Tools

Key theme – Data quality

Data Quality Statement

Assurance of data quality

To accompany published outputs from the national collection

Informed judgements about fitness for use

Information on how each area of data quality is addressed

Data Quality Framework

Data quality policies and procedures

Data quality KPIs and metrics

Data quality audits

Data quality improvement initiatives

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort”

- John Ruskin

Data Dictionary

Standardise definitions for data items

Ensure consistency in the collection of data

Ensure validity and reliability

Clear summary of all data items

Remove confusion or ambiguity

Review programme for national data collections

2017

Phased programme

Prioritisation criteria for inclusion

Guide to review programme

Self assessment tool – questionnaire to assess how managing organisation meets the standards

Summary aggregate report published

Review of two national data collections

Step 1:

Self-Assessment Tool

Answer questions

Submit documentation

Improvement plan

Step 2:

Information request

Documentation requested by HIQA

Information requested

by HIQA

Step 3:

On-site review

Documentation review

Interviews with staff

Observation

Review programme for national data collections

2017

“Better data, better decisions....

.....resulting in safer better care”

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