Data Quality Management in e-Health Integration Platforms: the Case of Uruguay

Abstract

Healthcare organizations increasingly need to integrate their software systems with each other in order to exchange clinical data and carry out healthcare processes in coordinated ways. Integration platforms provide mechanisms, based on advanced middleware technologies like the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), in order to facilitate such integration. In addition, data quality in the healthcare area is critical to take timely and accurate decisions for the health and well-being of patients. This paper propose a solution for data quality management in the context of the Uruguayan e-health integration platform. The proposal comprises a data quality model, that includes quality characteristics identified from dierent types of sources, and extensions to an ESB-based integration platform which allows assessing and enforcing data quality requirements in inter-organizational data exchanges. The proposal was completely prototyped which allowed validating the technical feasibility of the proposed solution.