National Framework Agreement for the provision of Data Validation Services

Tender description

A number of NHS organisations are currently migrating, or are expected to migrate from legacy Patient Administration Systems (PAS) to modern Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems. Many legacy PAS are not Referral To Treatment (RTT) compliant and, therefore, RTT Pathways and associated Events for migration have to be ‘manually manufactured’ from existing referrals and outcomes. There may also be significant data quality issues with legacy data that will impact on the management and integrity of that data prior to implementation of a new EPR system. It is expected that, as part of the process of migrating data to a modern EPR, the data from the legacy PAS will require certain cleansing tasks to improve the quality and integrity of data being migrated, especially when such data potentially violates system rules for import to the incoming EPR system. In addition to cleansing data, data validation may be required, to facilitate the migration to an EPR. This includes validation of incomplete pathways and incomplete waiting lists as well as understanding the data quality issues that could facilitate the RTT migration to the incoming EPR system and the Client’s Covid-19 restoration and recovery work. National Codes from the NHS Data Dictionary will be used where possible. This will improve the quality of patient data held within EPR and support the optimal use of the EPR from implementation. NHS organisations may lack in-house expertise and/or capacity to undertake the necessary data cleansing exercises and may require expert assistance in undertaking a data validation exercise prior to the Client’s planned migration of its legacy PAS to a modern EPR system. The proposed framework will provide Clients with this expert support. A selection of the ITT documents is attached. Please log in or register to view the full ITT and to apply.