Are you tired of dealing with unreliable data that hinders your decision-making process? Join Charlie Harp, the host of the Informonster Podcast, as he explores issues impacting data quality and explains how Simple Assessment Modules (SAMs) function within the PIQI framework. In the final episode of our Data Quality in Healthcare series, Charlie guides you through the intricacies of SAMs which are specialized tests designed to evaluate the quality of your data entities for specific use cases. Discover how these plug-and-play modules can seamlessly integrate into evaluation profiles, allowing y ..read more

In the third installment of the Data Quality in Healthcare series, Charlie Harp explores the taxonomy of the PIQI Framework. He breaks down the primary categories of 1.) Delivery and 2.) Intrinsic Issues, and shows how the subcategories a.) availability b.) accuracy c.) conformity and d.) plausibility are used to analyze and address data quality challenges. Come back for part four where Charlie talks about Simple Assessment Modules (SAMs) and the elegant simplicity of recursive failure.  Contact Clinical Architecture • Tweet us at @ClinicalArch • Follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook • Email ..read more

Tune in as Charlie Harp unveils the rationale behind the Patient Information Quality Improvement’s (PIQI) streamlined data model, and explains how it turns complex patient information into an organized format for analysis. The next episode will cover the taxonomy that was used in the PIQI framework to identify the root causes of data issues and provide recommendations for improvement. Contact Clinical Architecture • Tweet us at @ClinicalArch • Follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook • Email us at informonster@clinicalarchitecture.com Thanks for listening ..read more

When looking for a practical way to assess the quality of patient information from external sources, Charlie Harp found that existing frameworks were either too general or too specific to certain databases or schemas. So, he created the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework. In the second episode of the "Data Quality in Healthcare" series, Charlie gives a high-level overview of the PIQI framework and shares some use cases for this structure. Tune in as he shares the ultimate goal for the framework which is to enhance the quality of patient information to provide better outco ..read more

It’s time to take a closer look at healthcare data quality. This episode is the beginning of a series related to the challenges that all healthcare professionals face in gathering, organizing, and using patient data. Join the conversation as Charlie Harp shares how we got to this place as an industry and a solution for measuring the quality of patient information. Listen now to learn about the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework and how it can be used to help healthcare professionals make better informed decisions. Contact Clinical Architecture • Tweet us at @ClinicalArch ..read more

It’s time to take a closer look at healthcare data quality. This episode is the beginning of a series related to the challenges that all healthcare professionals face in gathering, organizing, and using patient data. Join the conversation as Charlie Harp shares how we got to this place as an industry and a solution for measuring the quality of patient information. Listen now to learn about the Patient Information Quality Improvement (PIQI) framework and how it can be used to help healthcare professionals make better informed decisions. Contact Clinical Architecture • Tweet us at @ClinicalArch ..read more

In this episode of The Informonster podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Janice Kelly, President of AORN Syntegrity, Inc., (Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) with over 25 years of informatics experience. Janice shares how AORN is working to enhance workflows with surgical schedules and perioperative nursing. She also gives insights into how AORN collaborates with healthcare institutions to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to new procedures, CPT codes, and preference cards.  Charlie and Janice explore the unexpected ways data quality impacts healthcare and how AORN's contri ..read more

In this episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp sits down with Patina Zarcone, Director, and Millie Malai, Technical Project Manager of Datapult, an APHL company. They discuss how Datapult and Clinical Architecture came together to create a system that would get lab data to public health faster, especially during the pandemic. They discuss the impact of this system on the timeliness of data for emerging infectious diseases, and how converting data from CSV to HL7 v2.5.1 was a game changer to ensure that public health received the highest quality data. About Patina Zarcone Patina (Za ..read more

In this episode Charlie Harp talks with Lori Moore, Public Health Analyst and Stuart Myerburg, Informatics Team Lead with the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) group, as they discuss what it’s like managing data around vaccines, the challenges they faced and opportunities they discovered while going through the COVID-19 crisis.  ..read more

On this Episode of the Informonster Podcast, Charlie Harp talks with Drew Ivan, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyniate, about cross-organization interoperability, patient interoperability  from consumer devices, why we interoperate, and how all of it affects our relationship with trust ..read more