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HSE Ireland undergoes data quality exercise
Jan 12 2010, 09:23 AM
A spokeswoman for Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has revealed the organisation carried out a data quality exercise in 2009.
The representative said 21,260 medical cards were removed from the HSE's register over the course of the 12-month period as it sought to eliminate the ones belonging to people who have died and reduce instances of duplicate information, the Irish Times reports.
Eligibility for medical cards was recently changed and the organisation is looking to get them back from over-70s who no longer meet the necessary criteria to hold one.
A total of 12,101 were returned last year, when a deadline of March was set. However, almost half of those who should have given theirs back have failed to do so.
Data quality is being viewed by companies and other organisations as increasingly important, it appears. Dr Dave Waddington wrote for IT Director last month that it is "an essential component of information".
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