74% of Healthcare Organizations Rate Their Patient Data Quality as Mixed or Poor, New Clinical Architecture Report Finds

CARMEL, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clinical Architecture, a leading healthcare data quality and interoperability solution provider, released its 2026 Healthcare Data Quality Report, revealing continued industry concern about the reliability of patient data and its impact on healthcare organizations.

The fourth annual report examines how healthcare professionals perceive the quality of patient data, the impact of poor-quality data on healthcare organizations and the challenges involved in improving data quality. The 2026 survey includes perspectives from providers, academia, public health, value-based care, life sciences and healthcare vendor market segments.

The findings reveal a significant trust gap:

• 82% of respondents rated patient data from external sources as poor or mixed quality, while 94% were concerned with its accuracy overall.

• 68% identify limited time and resources as a key barrier to improving data quality.

• For a fourth consecutive year, participants reported an increase in concern (77%) regarding provider burnout tied to the increasing volume of external data being integrated.

These outcomes have significant implications for interoperability. As healthcare organizations exchange patient information across EHRs, health systems, payers and other organizations, the value of that exchange depends on whether the data can be trusted.

“Over the last four years, our survey participants have consistently told us that the data in their environments is mostly mixed or poor quality,” Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, said. “At the same time, it is getting easier to access data from other organizations, but much of that data still is not trusted or directly usable. Given the impact data quality has on care, cost, and operational efficiency, it is clear why objectively measuring data quality with frameworks like PIQI is so important to the future of healthcare.”

The 2026 Healthcare Data Quality Report includes this year’s findings alongside data from previous years, providing a four-year window of how perceptions of healthcare data quality have evolved.

View the full report: Clinical Architecture 2026 Healthcare Data Quality Report

About Clinical Architecture

Clinical Architecture was founded in 2007 by industry veterans, clinicians, and informatics experts to deliver innovative solutions that maximize the effectiveness of healthcare. We work with leading organizations including several of the largest healthcare enterprises, EHR/HIE vendors, the Joint Commission, the CDC, and others to solve challenges around healthcare data quality and interoperability