Healthcare IT Today April 2, 2024
John Lynn

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...

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Trends
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