Healthcare Data Quality Digest

Taking a Closer Look at Healthcare Data Quality in 2025

Taking a Closer Look at Healthcare Data Quality in 2025

While healthcare interoperability has advanced through digital transformation and standardized frameworks, the next critical step is improving data quality to ensure health data is not only shared but also accurate, ...
A Hierarchy of Healthcare Interoperability Needs

A Hierarchy of Healthcare Interoperability Needs

While healthcare interoperability has advanced through digital transformation and standardized frameworks, the next critical step is improving data quality to ensure health data is not only shared but also accurate, ...
Unintended Consequences of Poor-Quality Value Sets: A Case Series

Unintended Consequences of Poor-Quality Value Sets: A Case Series

Our value set experts at Clinical Architecture have many years of experience with defining best practices for value set authoring and maintenance, and their collective wisdom has been distilled into ...
A Year in the Evolution of Data Quality

A Year in the Evolution of Data Quality

In our recent webinar, A Year in the Evolution of Data Quality, Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, shares key findings from the 2024 Healthcare Data Quality Survey and introduces ...
Tips for Effective Value Set Authoring and Maintenance

Tips for Effective Value Set Authoring and Maintenance

Webinar: Are You Getting Value From Your Value Sets? Value sets can be an effective tool for analyzing clinical data and identifying critical gaps in patient care. Clinical Architecture believes ...
The Future of Healthcare Interoperability Requires Patient Information Quality Improvement

The Future of Healthcare Interoperability Requires Patient Information Quality Improvement

Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, spoke at the HIMSS24 annual conference about the need to improve the quality of healthcare data that is gathered and shared ...
Navigating the Intersection of Data Quality and Master Data Management

Navigating the Intersection of Data Quality and Master Data Management

In the dynamic world of data management, ensuring the quality of data while effectively managing master data can feel like an overwhelming challenge. At this year’s ViVE Conference in Los ...
The Anatomical Inventory

The Anatomical Inventory

Recently, we were working on a mechanism in Symedical designed to enable the creation and deployment of clinical insights based on the information in a patient's electronic medical record.  The ...
Information Management #3 - The Information Ecosystem

Information Management #3 – The Information Ecosystem

It all starts with an epiphany.  This is the moment that the leadership of a healthcare enterprise realizes that the key to efficiency, risk mitigation, quality and better outcomes is ...
Information Management in Healthcare

Information Management in Healthcare: Digital Empathy, Bad Data, and More

By: Charlie Harp Information Management in Healthcare Information Management - Digital Empathy If you are reading this blog three things are likely true. (1) you are somehow involved in healthcare ...
Taxonomy of Healthcare Data Quality Webinar 2023

A Taxonomy of Healthcare Data Quality

Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, presented a webinar on the Taxonomy of Healthcare Data Quality as a tool to assess the quality of healthcare data. He discussed the benefits ...
Prioritizing Data Quality and Making Use of External Data

Prioritizing Data Quality and Making Use of External Data

Elevating Patient Care Through Data Quality and Interoperability: Rochester Regional Health's Success Story Data interoperability plays a crucial role in ensuring seamless patient care and informed clinical decision-making. Rochester Regional ...
What is Data Normalization?

What is Data Normalization?

Recently a friend of mine asked me a question.  "What is normalization?" One formal definition is “Normalization is the process of reducing data to its canonical (normal) form.  In doing so ...
The Value of Data Quality in Healthcare

The Value of Data Quality in Healthcare

With the amount of information that healthcare providers collect on a daily basis, it can become overwhelming and it's no wonder that many organizations seek ways to refine the patient ...
COVID-19 Interoperability Alliance Retrospective

COVID-19 Interoperability Alliance Retrospective

The COVID-19 Interoperability Alliance (“Alliance”) was an informatics-focused collaboration between Clinical Architecture, Logica Health, MITRE, Regenstrief Institute, SNOMED, Apelon, CareEvolution, and the National Association of Community Health Centers. The purpose ...
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The Inevitability of Automated Interoperability

There is an invention you may have heard of, it’s called the telephone. It is a device that provides physical interoperability between individuals that want to communicate with one another ...
The Notion of “Provider Friendly” in Healthcare IT

The Notion of “Provider Friendly” in Healthcare IT

The point of a software application in a healthcare setting is essentially to (1) improve patient care (2) assist providers in providing care (3) make the processes involved in patient ...
Clinical Architecture Revolutionizes How Meaningful Use Terminology Sets are Acquired and Updated with Symedical Content Portal

Clinical Architecture Revolutionizes How Meaningful Use Terminology Sets are Acquired and Updated with Symedical Content Portal

Clinical Architecture has revolutionized the process of finding, formatting and updating the many standard terminologies, HL7 value sets and reference maps required to meet Meaningful Use and other operational objectives ...

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