title: Lessons from a child health system on opportunities and threats to quality from networked record systems.
abstract: The British Child Health System has been designed and widely implemented to support equity of access to preventive child health services, using case-based integrated records. Lately, telematics has been increasingly applied to improve the timeliness of data entry. A special project has been established to monitor overall quality of the system's use and of the resultant preventive services. The telematics application has been found to be a potential threat to quality in a way which would apply to all remote networked patient-based systems. The demonstration will show the methodology and interim results.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rigby
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nolder
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006113:United Kingdom