Data collection is at the heart of every care flow. Whether it’s for quality reporting, registries, data analysis or shared decision making with the patient: collecting the right data at the right time is crucial to delivering great care.
You might be building a care flow to collect a dataset to feed a registry or an ICHOM standard set. Or you want to build a fully SNOMED-coded care flow. Or you just want to make sure that the collected dataset across several flows is consistent because it will lead to higher data quality at your organization.
For all these needs and more, the data catalog is at your disposal and can be exported (to JSON) with the aim to deliver a blueprint of the data that will come out of an orchestrated care flow.
How to access the data catalog
Open the data catalog by clicking on the "Data Catalog" tab in your care flow overview page.
What you can see in the data catalog
The data catalog allows to view all the data points that are collected in your care flow at a glance. The data points listed are:
data points you created by using baseline information, forms, calculations and custom actions in your care flow,
Patient information (PII) like first and last name, imported from the patient profile.
The data catalog has the following columns:
Data point: the identifier of the data point. The data point name is also used to configure transitions, variables and conditional logic in the care flow.
Category: to what category does the data point belong. For example a step, form, calculation.
Type: the data point type. For example string, date, number ...
Possible values: the possible values for this data point. Especially useful for multiple choice questions.
PII: view which data points are marked as Personal Identifiable Information (by default this is turned off).
👀 tip: Make use of the search field and filters when you look for certain data points.
Use your data catalog
Read up in this article how you can:
Mark data as PII / PHI
Export your data catalog as a blueprint for data engineers
Add metadata like SNOMED and ICD-10 coding to your data points