EHR Intelligence March 12, 2020
Patient safety, hospital finances, and patient privacy are all at risk when patient matching falls short.
Until health systems can consistently exchange patient data, patient safety and financial burdens will remain a significant issue. This is keenly apparent in the patient matching issue pervading the US health system.
Patient matching is the practice of connecting disparate patient records across different medical providers or facilities. A patient visiting two different doctors or two different hospitals should yield the same medical record, but the data shows this doesn’t usually happen.
Because of this, Shaun Grannis, MD, Regenstrief Institute vice president of data and analytics, explained that patient data has the potential to be fragmented across health systems.
“They’re going to be identified...
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