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Ensuring Data Quality in eRA. Mark Siegert Chief, Data Quality Branch Division of Information Services. Why is data quality important? Affects every business area that touches the application. Bad data can delay a review or an award
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Ensuring Data Quality in eRA Mark Siegert Chief, Data Quality Branch Division of Information Services
Why is data quality important? • Affects every business area that touches the application. • Bad data can delay a review or an award • Duplicate profiles can cause a PD/PI to miss out on continuous submission eligibility • Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act • Organizational Hierarchy coding can affect end of year reporting
Data Quality Branch Accomplishments in 2009: • Number of Potential Duplicate Profiles in eRA Total collapsed project inception: 55,002 Number collapsed in 2009: 4,833 • Provided expert-level assistance for over 2,600 particularly complex or difficult extramural data issues/questions • Processed 5,069 registrations for New Organizations in the Commons, with a monthly high of 1,033 in April 2009
Commons Registrations Completed Calendar Years 2005-2010As of 08/31/2010 10:00 a.m.
Current actions to assure data quality • Due diligence when registering organizations • More and more checks when application comes into eRA from Grants.gov • Work with eRA CRMs when the source of incorrect data can be traced to a specific eRA module
Future changes coming to assist in quality of data • NIH Office of the Enterprise Architect project to standardize external organization registration (Enrollment of Vendors and Grantees) • Use of CCR data where possible • Federated Authentication – should reduce potential for duplicate profiles • Project to determine top sources of data corruption and prioritization for their correction with eRA management
How can you help? • Always check for an existing account for a new researcher • Reviewer, trainee, etc. • Prevents 2 accounts/profiles in Commons • Stress the importance of correctly entering the Division (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, etc) and the department on the 424RR • Check our work using RePORTER (http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm) • Report any grants coded incorrectly to the Help Desk