MultiBriefs Exclusive March 13, 2020
Correct patient matching on health records is an essential safety tool for any physician’s office or hospital. Yet achieving it is a significant nationwide problem, according to eye-opening new research from eHealth Initiative Foundation and NextGate. Their study, published last month, “The State of Patient Matching in America,” finds that 38% of surveyed providers report at least one adverse event due to patient record information errors in the past two years.
What’s more, the Pew Charitable Trust supported a 2019 study that found consistently using standard demographic info (like names, addresses and dates of birth) would help in effectively linking patient records from different physicians.
The proposed National Patient Identifier (NPI) system is another possible fix, although there are privacy...
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