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HITAC recommends leveraging demographic data to help patient matching

Healthcare DIVE May 14, 2019
Rebecca Pifer

Dive Brief:

  • A key advisory committee to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT voted unanimously Monday to recommend adding a slew of demographic data to the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) dataset, a standardized set of health data that would be interoperable nationwide under the proposed HHS interoperability rules.
  • The Health IT Advisory Committee wants ONC to add current and previous addresses, mobile and landline phone numbers, email addresses and the last four digits of a patient’s Social Security number to the dataset, a move that should help match patients to their healthcare records, a key problem area highlighted by interoperability experts when the rules were announced in February.
  • HITAC also voted...

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