Clinical Data Quality Improvement

Overview

Objectives

Resources and Links

Contact Officers

Overview

The Clinical Data Quality Improvement Program aims to support Tasmanian divisions achieve improvements in the quality and use of general practice data. The program currently supports many of the goals of the Australian Primary Care Collaborative (APCC), population health and chronic disease management and eHealth activities.

Program Objectives

The objectives of the Clinical Data Quality Improvement Program are to assist Divisions to achieve:

• Improved clinical data quality in general practice; and

• Increase the sharing of quality clinical data by general practice.

To meet these objectives, General Practice Tasmania will provide support and assistance to Divisions to:

• Deliver programs to general practice which improve the quality of clinical data and the use of secure clinical data management systems; and

• Continue to improve their information management capacity, skills and expertise, to support general practices improve the quality and management of their clinical and administrative data.

Resources

Clinical Audit

The PCS Clinical Audit System (CAS) is a clinical information system which continuously supports quality improvement in information management and enhances the business capability of general practice. This package works with the GP Clinical Desktop System (Medical Director 2 and 3) to present the GP and practice staff with understandable clinical information to which they can respond.

With the increasing demands on general practice to participate in the collation and dissemination of de-identified patient information to support population health initiatives. Clinical Audit will assist practice staff to assess the quality and completeness of patient information, and therefore, practice population information, while identifying the target patient groups that, appropriately managed, can increase income from practice incentive payments.

Testing of clinical audit with Best Practice and Genie is currently underway. Please contact Pen Computer Systems for information about release dates.

Practice Health Atlas

Practice Health Atlas (PHA), developed by Adelaide West General Practice Network, is a decision support tool that aims to inspire general practice teams to reflect on their activities and to develop innovative business models for more effective health care services and outcomes. It is based on the synthesis of relevant, high quality and timely practice health data, as well as using such data to predict future health care needs and trends (intelligence). To find out more about Practice Health Atlas please visit the AWGPN website.

 Contact Officer(s)