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Webinar: Why Patient Matching is your EHR’s Achilles’ Heel

Jun 21 2018

Whether you use an EHR from Epic®, Cerner®, McKesson®, eClinicalWorks®, or another vendor, it has one fatal flaw that is costing your organization money, diminishing care quality, and preventing strategic initiatives. Every EHR struggles with patient matching, and this struggle is becoming insurmountable as organizations integrate new data sources, migrate to single EHR instances, and onboard patient data from newly acquired hospitals and clinics. Luckily, there is a cure.

Past Events

Webinar: Why Patient Matching is your EHR’s Achilles’ Heel

May 23 2018

Every EHR struggles with patient matching, and this struggle is becoming insurmountable as organizations integrate new data sources, migrate to single EHR instances, and onboard patient data from newly acquired hospitals and clinics. Organizations are forced to either (1) suffer rising duplicate rates, which drastically impact care quality and patient safety, or (2) throw more money at an already substantial EHR investment by hiring a team to manually resolve a growing queue of potential duplicates. Luckily, there is a cure.

Webinar: Improving Patient Matching in your EHR: A Case Study

Mar 27 2018

EHR systems, while they’ve made great strides in development, still have a foundational component that is far from fantastic: the master patient index (MPI). While many health information management (HIM) professionals hoped EHR systems’ MPIs might solve their patient matching headaches, they’re facing a familiar problem – long task lists of flagged “potential matches” needing review and remediation, and duplicate rates of 20% or higher.

Luckily, there are ways to improve any EHR system’s patient matching performance without disrupting any of its core functionality. Join this webinar to hear how Executive Director of Northeast Georgia’s HealtheConnection, Alan Wills, tackled the patient matching problem with a simple plug-in service.

Webinar: Finding a Solution to Healthcare’s Patient Matching Problem

Feb 28 2018

With errors in patient identification leading to safety risks and increasing the cost of care, patient matching should be a top priority for healthcare leaders. The inability to positively identify patients undermines efforts to improve clinical quality and patient experience, both of which factor highly in value-based care initiatives.

The Pew Charitable Trusts Manager of Health Information Technology Ben Moscovitch and Regenstrief Center for Biomedical Informatics Director Shaun Grannis, MD, MS, FACMI, lead a discussion on the impact of patient matching on utilization, revenue, patient satisfaction and interoperability and potential solutions to the problem.

 

Webinar: Crawl, Walk, Run: Three Real-World Patient Matching Case Studies

Nov 29 2017

Patient matching is at the forefront of the national Health IT conversation and it’s no secret that a new approach to patient matching is sorely needed. Luckily, a next-generation patient matching approach exists that organizations can leverage in three simple steps to dramatically improve their patient matching.

Watch this webinar to learn about this next-generation matching approach, called “Referential Matching,” and to hear about the real-world successes that three large healthcare organizations have seen with Referential Matching.

Webinar: 3 Strategies for Achieving Interoperability

Jun 27 2017

The future of healthcare in the US is based on an assumption that every health IT system can interoperate with every other health IT system—which would enable better care coordination and reduce costs. But how far along are we at actually achieving full interoperability and what can we do to get there?

Join our webinar with the eHealth Initiative to learn about:

  • The larger challenge and strategy of achieving interoperability
  • How one large health system is achieving interoperability within its own four walls
  • Strategies for achieving interoperability not just within an organization, but also between organizations, and with payers, HIEs, and state and federal health agencies
  • The newest frontier of interoperability—called “identity interoperability”—and counterintuitive ways that organizations can achieve it

Webinar: Why A National Patient Identifier Is Not The Answer

Jun 21 2017

Many health IT professionals believe a National Unique Patient Identifier (UPID) would solve the problems of patient identification and patient matching, but such an identifier is not the best solution.

Originally presented by Verato’s Founder and CTO Brent Williams at the 2017 CHIA Convention and Exhibit, this webinar will address:

  • The roots of the patient identification and patient matching problem
  • 7 critical challenges that make a UPID infeasible and an impractical solution to these problems
  • The challenges of implementing a UPID in the United States versus other countries that have already implemented one
  • Alternative solutions to the patient identification problem