Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare.  While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification.  This is a problem that’s made worse by not having a national patient identifier, but let’s set that topic aside for a moment and recognize that even with a national patient identifier, patient identification and patient matching is still going to be a massive challenge. The depth of this challenge and some modern solutions for managing identities in healthcare was illustrated really well in a session at the HIMSS 2024 conference by Todd M. Rogow, CEO and President at Healthix, who shared their use of Verato to address their Patient Identity challenges.  Check out our summary of the session below along with some added commentary.  Plus, be sure to check out the slide that illustrates the various levels of EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) maturity. First up was an intro to Healthix, one of the largest public HIEs out there that serves New York. When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend.  50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data.  Plus, I love to see that they’ve sent 15+ million alerts that help healthcare organizations better coord...
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