Data Centre Profile: The Provincial Health Data Centre of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Western Cape Provincial Health Data Centre (PHDC) consolidates person-level clinical data across government services, leveraging sustained investments in patient registration systems, a unique identifier, and maturation of administrative and clinical digital health systems.

Objectives

The PHDC supports clinical care directly through tools for clinicians which integrate patient data or identify patients in need of interventions, and indirectly through supporting operational and epidemiological analyses.

Methods

The PHDC is housed entirely within government. Data are processed from a range of source systems, usually daily, through distinct harmonisation and curation, beneficiation, and reporting processes. Linkage is predominantly through the unique ide

SUBMITTER: Boulle A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7482518 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature