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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.

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.