Consultancy

PRIMIS has over a decade of expertise about primary care information management and the requirement for quality information flow. Understanding the structure, personnel and processes of primary care helps to build a picture of potential data quality issues and how to guard against them.

In order to enter accurate data practices need to understand medical and clinical terminology.
The PRIMIS team understands the use and anomalies of all the current terminologies used in primary care along with any system-specific implementation issues.

PRIMIS provides training to users of primary care information to guide them into good recording and data entry techniques. Many data recording issues can be avoided by understanding how practice data flows together.

Once data is entered accurately then it should be of use to the primary care team. PRIMIS understands how the data is stored, recalled, used and interpreted.

Each clinical system is different in its approach to data entry, retrieval and storage. This is vital to understand when data is required for comparative purposes.

PRIMIS understands the structure, storage and information governance processes of each clinical system along with resource, personnel and culture aspects which may impact on quality data recording.

A patient's electronic medical record has many aspects that make data extraction complex to define, implement and ethically extract. PRIMIS has a great deal of experience in defining, specifying and accurately extracting data on involved clinical topics for national customers.

Data on its own is meaningless and analysis can be misleading or even dangerous if not turned into information accurately and safely. PRIMIS has many years of experience in data analysis and the information governance issues around transmission, sharing and display.

PRIMIS can help you define the criteria to accurately extract the data you need, taking account of your specific system architecture and terminology. We can also provide advice on clinical audit, extraction methods, and their relationships with primary care clinical systems.

All of the previous detail is possible to undertake, but in our experience it is missing one very important factor, which is that there will never be any improvement or change in the way data is recorded and used without a programme that supports the change to happen.

PRIMIS is part of The University of Nottingham and delivers training and support services to primary care trusts, health informatics services and emerging clinical commissioning groups. PRIMIS can also deliver training to others involved with or have an interest in the field of primary care data quality and information management.

PRIMIS understands the culture and motivation of people working in primary care.
We understand the process of change management and can help you to get the best outcome out of any proposed change.