VHA CLINICAL DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Data Quality:
For this project our clinical data quality team led a nine year VHA VHIE effort to improve clinical data quality for interoperability and Clinical Decision Support. We conduct strategic planning, C-CDA requirements analysis, and data quality improvement analysis. Our team examines incoming and outgoing JHIE data for accuracy in delivery and interpretation. We ensure VHA, Oracle Health, DoD, and community partners exchange data correctly and consistently.

Our VHA VHIE Clinical Data Quality team reaches out to the thousands of private hospital systems and clinics who exchange data with the Joint Health Information Exchange (JHIE). J P Systems provides clinical data quality analysis on various domains (such as allergies) and trace the origins of bad data coming into the VHA enterprise. Our Team examines data in clinical documents (CDAs) exchanged in the JHIE and compare the file contents to the expected contents specified in the HL7 CDA standard.  We find patterns of the origins of bad data and their causes to determine if data is being sent and interpreted accurately between the VHA and Cerner Millennium, DoD, community provider partners.

We analyze data exchange problems and perform a root cause analysis. Then we engage with external and internal data exchange partners to help rectify them. Our unique approach is to use a highly qualified and well rounded team of Data Scientists, Clinicians, Data Standards Specialists, Health Systems Specialists to produce a plan for improvement and stakeholder engagement.