RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Using data to drive service improvement: false dawns and a promised land?
JF Future Healthcare Journal
JO Future Healthc J
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 150
OP 153
DO 10.7861/fhj.2022-0058
VO 9
IS 2
A1 Ken W Dunn
A1 Mark A de Belder
YR 2022
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/150.abstract
AB Increasing emphasis and expectation is being placed on the role of healthcare data in addressing the problems faced by the NHS. The ideal is to replace the current fragmented system of individual systems and registries with a universal, integrated data system that provides frontline staff with what they need while also allowing monitoring of services, intelligent population-based commissioning and the facilitation of quality improvement (QI) and research. With the recently published tender for the creation of a federated data platform (FDP) there is optimism that these aspirations are being addressed; however, concerns remain that the future use of healthcare data in the UK will not fulfil its potential if the current well-recognised shortcomings of existing systems and processes are not dealt with.