The Canadian Institute for Health Information Data Quality Framework, Version 1: A Meta-Evaluation and Future Directions

Information quality (IQ) problems can have severe consequences in the health care sector. Since its inception, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has recognized the importance of information quality and has implemented a framework designed to evaluate the data quality of the numerous CIHI data holdings. After one year of implementation, a metaevaluation of the CIHI data quality framework evaluation process was conducted and the framework was found to be both relatively strong theoretically as well as practical. Despite a relatively favourable meta-evaluation, several aspects of the framework are scheduled for improvement. It is recommended that data quality framework and meta-evaluation development be recognized as crucial with the ultimate objective of improving information in the health care sector.