Case Study: Wirral Health Informatics Service achieves a duplicate-free single patient view with DQ Global

Wirral Health Informatics Service links 68 NHS systems with DQ Global

The customer, Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS), an NHS department, faced the challenge of accurately matching non-identical patient records across multiple healthcare organizations to create a single, holistic view for a cancer registry. This was critical to avoid medical errors and ensure patient safety. They partnered with vendor DQ Global and utilized their DQ Toolkit product to address this data quality issue.

DQ Global's solution embedded data formatting, standardization, and matching capabilities directly into WHIS's applications. This enabled the creation of a duplicate-free single patient view and a central Master Patient Index linking 68 systems. The results included improved patient identification and tracking, and it facilitated new capabilities like remote order communications from GPs to hospitals.

Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS)