The healthcare industry generates 30% of the world’s data volume—a number that is expected to surge in the coming years, growing faster than any other industry. This presents a problem not only because most organizations have trouble managing the data they have today, which often exists in fragmented silos, but they lack a strategic approach to prepare managing even larger data volumes.
These silos create chaos for healthcare organizations, resulting in costly inefficiencies and identity disconnects. This in turn leads to poor patient experiences as well as privacy and safety concerns. Due to rapidly expanding, disparate datasets, providers are left with overwhelming amounts of irrelevant, duplicate, or dangerously incorrect data.
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All eyes on interoperability
Why are all eyes on interoperability? The 21st Century Cures Act requires providers to share information with each other and with provider partners. This means that healthcare organizations face the complex challenge of seamlessly exchanging information across hundreds of systems, such as care management, population health analytics, specialty pharmacy, and imaging. Each organization has its own distinct data collection processes and frameworks, making this a difficult task, but one that is essential for effective collaboration and care.
As a result, health systems are shifting their investments to adapt and make sense of it all, favoring strategic initiatives that advance real-time data and analytics-driven workflows.
These capabilities are the foundation of next-generation healthcare information exchange and connected patient experiences. And while regulatory mandates have set this course, interoperability will be the key to achieving it. Interoperability facilitates a complete picture of care spanning every touchpoint, making critical information shareable across systems and providers and making the information accessible and actionable.
And at the heart of effective interoperability is identity data management.
Breaking down siloes: Delivering synchronized and seamless data
The power of data lies in its ability to drive insights and action, but this can only be achieved through seamless communication across IT systems and formats.
Isolated data silos and incompatible systems act as roadblocks. Addressing this challenge requires linking and synchronizing person information across systems and ensuring its accuracy and completeness over time. Accurate identity matching therefore forms the foundation for meaningful insights and must be prioritized in every organization’s interoperability strategy.
Identity in action: Success stories
Leveraging innovative solutions built for healthcare to tackle data fragmentation is a strategic imperative for leaders ready to unlock the full potential of their healthcare data. Below is just one example of results delivered by next generation identity management:
A large health system serving the New York City metropolitan area after a recent acquisition needed a solution to migrate data into its EHR and to support their patient portal launch to ensure a sustainable operation and data integrity. The health system leverages Verato hMDM as part of its data migration factory. By using Verato, it identifies overlap between its acquired patient data and existing EHR data, while also cleaning up duplicate patient identities before migration. This process has led to an 87% reduction in the potential match queue. Verato therefore enables the health system to migrate data more accurately into its EHR so they can gain a complete picture of patients while reducing burden on their HIM team charged with reviewing and reconciling duplicate charts during the migration. Additionally, this ensures a single holistic experience for their patients across the care continuum.
Seamless clinical interoperability is the natural evolution as healthcare organizations embark on the transformative journey toward a digitally integrated future—and Verato hMDM is purpose-built for healthcare to check every box.
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