Recently, articles in The Atlantic and Fortune highlighted a risk that plagues the healthcare system but is rarely talked about. The in-depth pieces uncover real-life patient stories resulting from mismatched and incorrect patient medical records. These tragic stories unfold in the articles and highlight scenarios that include permanent brain damage in a 5-year old; a cancer scare due to an incomplete radiological history; the missed diagnosis of a fatal brain aneurysm in a 47-year old woman;
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Cloud-Based Patient Matching Expands with Verato and MyDirectives Partnership
Verato, a provider of cloud-based patient matching, today announced that digital advance care planning company, ADVault, Inc., is the first partner in its new Powered by Verato(PBV) program. The program offers healthcare technology firms a next-generation patient matching solution that is highly accurate, secure, cost-effective, and easy to implement—all as a utility—using the Verato Universal MPI for patient matching.Powered by Verato Program BackgroundPatient matching is at the core of
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Innovaccer, Launches InAPI to Aggregate Healthcare Data for Providers, Payers, and Vendors
Healthcare organizations are riding the wave of digital disruption with increased adoption of applications to power patient centric-care, communications, and collaboration with peer organizations in the network. With this objective, they are seeking to integrate crucial information across the care continuum and establish interoperability among complex and disparate data systems- including legacy systems.Existing Interoperability ChallengesThere are over 200 EHRs in the US healthcare space,
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Imprivata Integrates Biometric ID with Verato’s Patient Matching
Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company, and Verato, a provider of patient identity matching solutions, today announced an integration partnership to offer a comprehensive solution for patient identification and record matching challenges. The integration will link links Imprivata PatientSecure, a positive patient identification solution for healthcare, with Verato Universal™ MPI, a cloud-based master patient index (MPI) solution powered by Verato’s proprietary referential matching
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LexisNexis Partners with QuadraMed to Prevent Duplicate Patient Records
LexisNexis and QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, today announced they have partnered to improve patient matching for QuadraMed’s Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) software and clean-up customers at over 1,200 healthcare facilities. QuadraMed diagnoses, treats, cures and prevents patient identity issues through a comprehensive set of software and services, including duplicate and overlap reconciliation, but its ability to confirm that two records represent the same person is
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Verato Raises $10M to Eliminate Duplicate Medical Records with Patient Matching Technology
Verato, a McLean, VA-based provider of cloud-based patient matching and master patient index (MPI) technology, today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series C financing led by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital with participation from Blue Heron Capital and California Health Care Foundation. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to accelerate the adoption of Verato’s revolutionary new technology by all segments within healthcare –
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Understanding The Hidden Costs of MPIs: 3 Things to Know
Patient matching is one of the major challenges facing the US healthcare system. It is becoming much more difficult as we enter an era where the amount and diversity of patient data is exploding with patient portals, patient engagement applications, telemedicine, and personal health records. Simultaneously, patient matching is becoming exponentially more important for patient safety, as well as to lower costs, to enable population health analytics, and to exchange patient information with other
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If MPIs are Dead, What’s Next For The Future of Patient Matching?
Healthcare technology continues to advance with ever greater sophistication and functionality. Yet one key component in the health IT toolkit has not kept pace with innovation. Patient matching technologies, including conventional master patient indexes (MPIs), hit a wall 10 years ago, and it’s time to admit it: conventional MPIs are a dying breed.The reason is that patient matching needs have grown exponentially at exactly the same time the underlying technology for patient matching solutions
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Rush Health Taps InterSystems to Implement Private Health Information Exchange
Rush Health, a Chicago-based clinically integrated health network has selected InterSystems to implement a private health information exchange (HIE). The implementation of InterSystems HealthShare will provide their hospital, physician and affiliate members a complete view of their patients’ records across the care continuum from within their EHR – connecting primary, specialty, sub-acute and hospital-based providers, as well as other HIEs regardless of EHR system.After evaluating several
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