Data Quality for Panel Management in Med Access

Key Points:
- Monitoring of patient data at the individual and population level in the clinic requires an understanding of structured data (vs. unstructured data) and data standardization
- Data quality: what, how and where it is input into Med Access directly effects good individual and population health management
- Good examples of structured data in Med Access include; drops downs, checkboxes, picklists, templates, tags, macros and imported lab data
- Some data needs to be standardized by agreement of all users or by only allowing it to be only recorded one way in the EMR
Key areas of data input are Demographics, Profiles, Tasks, Visits (templates), Investigations (tags) Labs (including manual) will directly effect the accuracy and reliability of the CDS triggers/Goals as point of care reminders