The Clinical Audit Tool encryption, de-identification and g-tagging process ensures that any patient data leaving a practice is kept secure and private, whilst also allowing aggregation and geospatial representation of this data.
The process may be summarised as follows:
- Data is collected from the clinical information system to create an encrypted extract file
- Data is de-identified via the FAT CAT process
- G-tags are assigned to the data
- Data is aggregated.