While  the reading focuses on data from patient health records being  abstracted or moving electronically into secondary data source systems,  more and more we are having to consider data from secondary data sources  being used to add to the primary health record. Examples:

1. A  patient brings in their personal health record that contains health  information from 2 other primary care providers at local clinics. They  want this information added to their health record at your hospital.
2. Inbound HIE data from an earlier encounter from an unrelated provider is electronically received for a patient’s health records
3. Inbound  data from the patient portal is received many times a day as patients  update their demographic or insurance information on the patient portal
4. Data is received from smart devices such as ambulatory heart monitors or insulin monitors and is downloaded into patient records

It  would be inefficient for all of this inpatient data to be manually  checked for validity. Please describe in 2-3 paragraphs (400-500 words)  how a healthcare organization could assure that this incoming data is  valid and accurate. Be sure to specifically address how systems would be  set up, as well as standards and policies that would need to be set.

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