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CAT4 (formerly known as the Clinical Audit Tool) is used extensively as a practice population health reporting tool in General Practice. It gives practices the ability to perform reporting and re-identification of patients within the practice. In addition, it is also able to provide reporting outside the practice using de-identified patient data. An example of the use of reporting outside the practice is to ACCHOs/PHNs, who use CAT4 de-identified data for population health analysis and reporting throughout their local regions. De-identified data refers to patient clinical data (e.g. diagnosis, measurements, pathology etc.) that does not contain information that can be used to identify the patient. De-identified data is permissible for use where it is not practicable to obtain informed consent for use of data. PEN CS has provided tools within CAT4 that can be run by the practice to create a de-identified patient data set. These tools are collectively known as FAT CAT, the Filtering and Anonymisation Tool for CAT. They are incorporated into CAT4. FAT CAT ensures that the de-identified data extract produced by CAT4 strictly adheres to the National Privacy Principles

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The Filtering process removes any patients who have withdrawn their consent to share data from the de-identified dataset. These patients can be flagged within CAT4.

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