{"entity":{"id":"idea-data-quality-scorecards","kind":"idea","name":"Public data-quality scorecards for every cancer centre","aka":[],"tldr":"Publish a simple report card showing how complete, timely and standard each hospital's cancer data are, so poor recording becomes visible and fixable.","summary":"Data quality is invisible and therefore unmanaged. A public scorecard per centre (completeness of stage and biomarkers, timeliness of submission, mCODE conformance, outcome capture) published quarterly by the registry or payer would create reputational pressure and allow improvement to be tracked, in the same way that hospital quality dashboards changed surgical mortality reporting.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Bottleneck evidence (Data silos): AACR Project GENIE","url":"https://www.aacr.org/professionals/research/aacr-project-genie/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["ai-computation"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-data-silos","b-real-world-evidence"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"Public scorecards will raise stage completeness and timeliness in the bottom quartile of centres by at least 20 percentage points within two years.","rationale":"Public reporting of surgical outcomes (New York cardiac surgery, UK cardiac surgery) improved performance through attention and peer comparison; data quality is more directly controllable by the centre than clinical outcomes.","test":"Publish scorecards for centres in one region; compare completeness trends with a region receiving the same metrics privately.","maturity":"speculative","actor":"data","cost":"small","horizonYears":2},"route":"/ideas/idea-data-quality-scorecards/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"ai-computation","kind":"section","name":"AI & Computation","route":"/fronts/ai-computation/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-data-silos","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Data silos","route":"/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/"},{"id":"b-real-world-evidence","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Weak real-world evidence and registries","route":"/bottlenecks/b-real-world-evidence/"}]}}