Consumer health informatics data quality may be "very significant issue" in technology's wider use -- GAO.
Executive Summary
COMPUTERIZED CONSUMER HEALTH DATA QUALITY AMONG "SIGNIFICANT ISSUES" that must be addressed if the systems are to be exploited most advantageously, the General Accounting Office suggests in a report issued July 26. In discussing consumer informatics with numerous experts, GAO reports, "information quality was raised...as a very significant issue."