Improving data quality in your practice through Diabetes data

Posted Tuesday 30 April 2024 | Australian Digital Health Agency

This 30 minute session will provide an overview of the importance of high-quality patient clinical records and practical examples of how to improve your General Practice's data quality, through a diabetes quality improvement activity. This training will support practices to align their daily data habits with the PIP QI Improvement Measures relating to diabetes (measures 1 and 10). 

This session will aim to guide General Practice administrative and clinical staff in gaining a foundational understanding of:

• the clinical risks of poor data;
• the importance of coding clinical information to ensure quality diagnosis and medical history/observations data;
• importance of medical terminology; and
• the benefits of up-to-date and accurate data within clinical software's and when uploading documents to the My Health Record