Shortcomings in the HSE's administration of a core hospital data collection system have been identified by the State's health services watchdog. It recommends assigning an individual with overall responsibility for information governance. While some improvements had been made in the areas of data quality and clinical coding in recent years, approaches to solving overall information management issues had not developed. The review was undertaken to assess compliance with information management standards published by Hiqa in March last year. “Complying with the information management standards will improve the quality of national health information and data, which will ultimately contribute to the delivery of safe and reliable health and social care data in Ireland,” said Ms Flynn.

Source: Evening echo October 02, 2018 16:30 UTC