Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 |
| Time: | 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, 4400, Reader's Digest Resource Centre |
| Audience: | Current Students, Faculty |
| Contact: | Ira Wagman, Ira.Wagman@carleton.ca |
Presented by Keith Denny
Director of Clinical Data Standards and Quality
Canadian Institute for Health Information
With every visit to a doctor, a clinic or other health service, each of us leaves documentary traces that record the details: who we are, why we sought help, clinical findings and the nature of the care provided. Institutional procedures impose quantifiable order upon what would otherwise be a chaotic mass of these personal experiences, transforming them into clinical-administrative data. Designed to establish equivalence in the service of comparability, and standardization in the name of coordination, the ultimate purpose of such data is to enable practices of government and regulation. As evidentiary regimes seek out quantitative forms of actionable knowledge, the data are mobilized for managerial oversight, health system performance measurement, and epidemiological and health systems research. With a focus on the liminal spaces of quantitative knowledge making in hospitals, where medical and bureaucratic rationalities are often in tension, this presentation examines the conditions of production of clinical-administrative data in Canada and the complex history of their routinization.