There are many things that can happen between a clinician documenting a piece of clinical data in one system, and you seeing that data in your own system. “Provenance” refers to the origin of a piece of data and what has happened to it as it has been transmitted between systems, which may include the name of the clinician who originated a piece of data, their organization, or modifications that have been made to the data.
Reply to this post with your answers to these questions:
1. Is it important for you to know all users who have touched/reconciled the information, only the originator or only the most recent?
a) Does this requirement change for different types of data — e.g. labs vs. Problems/diagnoses
b) What do you consider important provenance information: the clinician’s name, credentials, specialty, the name of the hospital or clinic?
2. Which situations are the most important for receiving an updated piece of clinical data?