False data prevention

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1

Hi everyone,

We are new to CommCare, but trying to determine if there is any way to
prevent false data entry. We will be using mobile data collection
administered by clinicians for a study, but we want to make sure that only
the participant/patient is entering data into the app even though it will
be an app on the tablet of the clinician. Does that make sense? Is there
anything like this?

Thanks so much!
Emily

2

Hi Emily!

There are a few ways that you can perform this kind of workflow, but they
can be a bit tricky to enforce, for obvious reasons.

One is to use one of CommCare's multimedia question types (audio recording,
or image recording) to identify that a unique person was present during the
visit. Unfortunately, this won't really establish that the patient is
entering data, simply that they are present. You could use the audio
recording question as a "consent and understanding" fingerprint, by having
the user say out loud that they were the one entering the data, which
establishes their understanding that they were supposed to be the ones
filling things out.

-Clayton

··· On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Emily Haroz wrote:

Hi everyone,

We are new to CommCare, but trying to determine if there is any way to
prevent false data entry. We will be using mobile data collection
administered by clinicians for a study, but we want to make sure that only
the participant/patient is entering data into the app even though it will
be an app on the tablet of the clinician. Does that make sense? Is there
anything like this?

Thanks so much!
Emily

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Thanks Clayton -- this looks interesting and like a good idea!

··· On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Clayton Sims wrote:

Hi Emily!

There are a few ways that you can perform this kind of workflow, but they
can be a bit tricky to enforce, for obvious reasons.

One is to use one of CommCare's multimedia question types (audio
recording, or image recording) to identify that a unique person was present
during the visit. Unfortunately, this won't really establish that the
patient is entering data, simply that they are present. You could use the
audio recording question as a "consent and understanding" fingerprint, by
having the user say out loud that they were the one entering the data,
which establishes their understanding that they were supposed to be the
ones filling things out.

-Clayton

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Emily Haroz eharoz@gmail.com wrote:

Hi everyone,

We are new to CommCare, but trying to determine if there is any way to
prevent false data entry. We will be using mobile data collection
administered by clinicians for a study, but we want to make sure that only
the participant/patient is entering data into the app even though it will
be an app on the tablet of the clinician. Does that make sense? Is there
anything like this?

Thanks so much!
Emily

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