Towards Harmonized Data Quality in the Medical Informatics Initiative – Current State and Future Directions
Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Health data from hospital information systems are valuable sources for medical research but have known issues in terms of data quality. In a nationwide data integration project in Germany, health care data from all participating university hospitals are being pooled and refined in local centers. As there is currently no overarching agreement on how to deal with errors and implausibilities, meetings were held to discuss the current status and the need to develop consensual measures at the organizational and technical levels. This paper analyzes the discovered similarities and differences. The result shows that although data quality checks are carried out at all sites, there is a lack of both centrally coordinated data quality indicators and a formalization of plausibility rules as well as a repository for automatic querying of the rules, for example in ETL processes.
DOI: 10.3233/shti210904
Authors: Matthias Löbe, Gaetan Kamdje-Wabo, Adriana Carina Sinza, Helmut Spengler, Marcus Strobel, Erik Tute
Language: English
Topic: Data Quality and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: POLAR_MI - Konsortien übergreifender Use-Case POLypharmazie, Arzneimittelwechselwirkungen, Risiken - Teilprojekt Universität Leipzig: Zentrale Koordination, Softwareentwicklung und Record Linkage, SMITH - Medizininformatik-Konsortium - Beitrag Universität Leipzig, DIFUTURE - Medizininformatik-Konsortium - Beitrag Klinikum der TU München, HiGHmed - Medizininformatik-Konsortium - Beitrag Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, MIRACUM - Medizininformatik-Konsortium - Beitrag Universität Heidelberg, SMITH - Medizininformatik-Konsortium - Beitrag Universitätsklinikum Aachen, G8221732353
OpenAlex ID: W4205651995