Cleaning your Clinical Software System
The information available in your clinical software system can be an invaluable tool for providing patient care and streamlining practice systems. However, for this information to be useful you must keep your database accurate and up-to-date.
Use the steps below to set up and check your database for accuracy and completeness. Once you can see where your data can be improved, you will be surprised at how you can streamline your practice systems.
- Appoint a person to manage your diabetes and chronic heart disease registers.
- Archive all inactive and deceased patient records.
- Contcct your pathology providers to send your results in HL7 format.
- Ask Moreton Bay General Practice Network to run the Canning Tool – a data extraction tool that will show you how good your data is.
- Analyse the results.
- Consider how to use these results to improve your practice systems and patient care delivery.
Want some help?
Please contact Paul Sutton on 07 3284 5155 to discuss your needs.
