QUALITY IS NOT AN ACT: Good habits in Health Information

Presentation to HIQA seminar, 1 March 2017 by Dr Sarah Craig, HRB

Quality is not an act?

‘Quality is not an act, it is a habit’

Aristotle

Who are we? HRB NHIS – National Health Information Systems

25 Staff 5 Systems 3 Topic areas

Mental Health

Disability

Drugs and Alcohol

Collecting data from … 1963

HRB and HIQA Membership of

Advisory Groups

Submissions on health

information

Piloting of Self-Assessment

Tool

Advisory Group on Standards

HRB and HIQA

HIQA Remit

HRB

Let’s talk about data quality

Seven dimensions of data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Who’s looking at data quality

this week?

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

LINK

Implementing data quality

NDTRS

NPIRS

NASS

NDRDI

A single standardised database

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Extract from LINK training material

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

LINK Real-time data checks

Implementing data quality

LINK Improved data accuracy

Implementing data quality

NDRDI

Drug-related Deaths Coroner

Coroner

HIPE

CSO

General Mortality Register

Data Quality Audits

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Source : HIQA Data Quality Guide

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Implementing data quality

Data quality – why we do it?

Data quality – why we do it?

Research

• Better systems

• Controls and audits

Evidence

• Improved data quality

• Greater confidence

Action

• Influence decision-making

• Better outcomes

Data quality – why we do it?

Thank you. Questions?