What You Should Know:
- Verato announced an identity information service that helps with COVID-19 contact tracing by making social determinants of health (SDOH) data more complete.
- According to a recent report, as much as half of the positive COVID-19 test results lack enough data to support contact tracing. By filling in that missing data, we can shorten the time between receiving positive test results and having data that allows for rapid response to contain the
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How Patients Suffer From The Worst Kept Secret in Health IT
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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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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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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Maryland HIE Renews Contract With Verato to Use Universal MPI for Patient Matching Support
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), a not-for-profit regional health information exchange (HIE) serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, has renewed its contract to use the Verato Universal MPI to automatically process its most difficult potential matches that would otherwise have to be manually reviewed and resolved. The ability to match and link patient identities across its participating organizations is fundamental to CRISP’s core services including its
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Verato Unveils Universal MPI with New Referential Matching Algorithms for EHR Integration
Verato, Inc., a provider of cloud-based identity matching solutions has announced the availability of the Verato Universal MPI, a revolutionary master patient index (MPI) that represents a different approach to the problem of patient identity resolution.Unlike conventional MPI technologies that must be laboriously deployed and populated with patient data, the Verato Universal MPI is a pre-built, cloud-based, nationwide master patient index that enterprises can simply “plug into”—without the need
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