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All conventional patient matching technologies are fundamentally the same, and fundamentally limited. Referential Matching is a fundamentally different approach to patient matching. It is the new gold standard in patient matching technology, and it is the silver bullet many organizations seek to solve their patient matching challenges.
I come from a big family, so I am not the only one to suffer from the St. Thomas-specific variety of patient matching woes. While we share our war stories often (only half of us have been able to finagle a period into our last names on social media, and we have all spent hours on the phone with various customer service lines), there is one anecdote that is always the first to come to mind.
Last week, Verato had the opportunity to attend, speak, and exhibit at the MDM & Data Governance Conference in Chicago. Our speaking session was with Shannon Hood from Intermountain Healthcare. Our VP of Healthcare talked with Shannon about how Intermountain has used Verato and our Referential Matching technology to improve Intermountain’s stewardship productivity by 174%.
This weekend will be filled with thrilling sports matches, including the World Cup Final on Sunday. Here’s to hoping bad data doesn’t influence the match.
Poor patient (or member) matching plagues every single component of healthcare, often in different ways and with varying degrees of visibility into the problem. In this post, I’ll describe one healthcare initiative that suffers from poor patient matching: your healthcare organization’s risk adjustment program.
Healthcare’s focus on the triple aim has spawned thousands of initiatives like improving the patient experience, measuring quality and performance, and enterprise clinical integration. But each of these initiatives shares a foundational assumption that frankly should be challenged: they assume access to patient data that is uniquely identified and correctly matched.
As the largest Integrated Health System in the United State, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) gets a lot of attention for every step it might make. Existing MPI technologies cannot resolve patient identities well enough to support VHA. But our new patient identity resolution technology, the Verato Universal MPI, could support the new needs.
No matter how much you have invested in your EHR or enterprise master patient index (EMPI) technology, no matter how small your patient population is, and no matter how diligent your registration staff is, your EHR or EMPI is riddled with duplicate patient records, which have three hidden costs.
Death and Taxes. We have all heard the inescapable phrase that binds us under a single truism. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are another unavoidable event that we should care about, and Referential Matching technology can help solve patient matching and identity resolution challenges during M&A activity.