Data Analytics & Info Governance

HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT

Competency 730.2.1: Health Data Structures, Usage, and Data Collection Tools – The graduate differentiates and organizes healthcare data and applies data collection methods that support clinical practice needs and organizational requirements for healthcare organizations.

Introduction:

Health informatics professionals may participate in data dictionary development projects. The ability to identify necessary data elements is assisted by the use of uniform data sets.

Scenario:

You are working with other informatics professionals to build a data dictionary for a healthcare organization. Your team has been assigned the job of taking the data elements found in various uniform data sets and building a data dictionary for each uniform data set. You must understand the different types of healthcare data so that you can apply the correct ones to your data dictionary.

Requirements:

A. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the following categories of healthcare data:
1. aggregate data
2. comparative data
3. patient-centric data
4. transformed-based data

B. Explain ways health record data may be used as a primary data source in a healthcare organization.

C. Discuss ways health record data from uniform data sets may be used for secondary data sources in a healthcare organization.

D. Analyze why a data dictionary is an essential tool when used across information systems.
1. Justify how the use of data dictionaries could improve an organization’s communication across the continuum of care.