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News Release from: DQ Global | Subject: DQ Toolkit
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Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) turned to DQ Global when it wanted a single patient view for cancer patients.
The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) is an NHS department which provides information and IT services to the health organisations in Wirral, Merseyside, including: Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral Primary Care Trust and Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS Foundation Trust They all jointly retain the services of WHIS to deliver infrastructure, development, support and project management services relating to their national NHS Information and I.T
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 11 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The data quality issue arose from trying to identify non-identically matching patient records across multiple and different organisations to create a common holistic view of the cancer patient's records.
This is a very sensitive area and critical that records are correctly matched to avoid both embarrassment and medical negligence.
Imagine the impact of incorrectly associating a live patient with a bereaved one, or notifying a healthy patient that they require cancer treatment.
With over 10 years' experience in data quality improvement, DQ Global specialises in easy-to-use, database-independent, data-cleansing software that saves money and provides a platform for better informed decisions.
Solutions range from simple desktop, through larger departmental databases to complex enterprise-wide single customer view and master data management initiatives.
Based in Fareham, Hampshire, DQ Global serves over 500 clients worldwide, including: Toshiba, Harvey Nichols, Standard Charter Bank, Pfizer and Siemens.
DQ Global provided the core technology its products are built on, the DQ Toolkit.
The technology allowed WHIS to embed data formatting, standardisation and matching capabilities right into their patient record management application, enabling WHIS to identify duplicate patient records with very high levels of confidence.
The use of the DQ Toolkit was extended to be embedded into the Wirral MPI (WiMPI) and then further extended to one of the most advanced and complete EHR systems in the NHS.
The DQ Toolkit allowed WHIS to cleanse and match demographic databases across primary, (GP's), secondary (Hospitals) and Tertiary care sectors (Specialist Oncology units) and link all their clinical data.
Results WHIS now has a duplicate free, single patient view for the electronic cancer register.
More recently the systems use has been expanded to the central Master Patient Index (MPI) in Wirral linking 68 systems across the local NHS community.
This has allowed the development of remote order communications from GPs to hospital for radiology and pathology investigations.
Future use of the technology is in the area of a contact project derived from the Victoria Climbie Inquiry to identify and track all children activity in health and social care.
Another upcoming project is the development of "virtual wards" in the community to reduce number of emergency admissions to hospital by targeted high-risk groups of patients such as COAD, diabetes and heart failure.
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