Health Information Quality Management System: Academics Health Libraries Perspectives

Abstract

This paper treats about health information quality in health academic libraries in Brazil and Germany. This research analyses the Health Information Management linked to Health Information Quality for educational and research purposes. Through qualitative and quantitative research, data were collected from literature review and empirical surveys applied in health academic libraries. The method known as ‘Information System on Quality’ was adopted. The objective is to design a model of information quality management for health academic libraries. As a main result it identified that the quality management model adopted by academic libraries offer different information quality perceptions by professionals and library’s users. It concludes that quality standards are possible to be adopted by any academic health library.