Compiling a prioritized list of health data quality challenges in public healthcare systems

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to identify Health Data Quality Challenges, by using a Literature Survey. This paper is an attribute to a larger study to compile in a prioritized list of data quality challenges in Public Clinics in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa. Studies have revealed that it is of high value to understand data quality challenges in administrating the National eHealth system in public clinics. For this paper, the researcher focuses on identifying data quality challenges out of literature. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the prioritizing of data quality challenges for improving data quality in public healthcare systems. 24 Broad data quality challenges have been identified from literature and will be used in further qualitative and quantitative studies to finally compile a prioritized list of Health Data Quality Challenges in Public Clinics in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa.