MedPage Today June 3, 2020
— Current technology for matching patients, records is performing poorly
WASHINGTON — Patient matching remains a complex problem for healthcare providers, but ideas for solving it still vary considerably, as seen at an online forum hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
The problem with conventional matching technology for patient matching — that is, making sure you know the correct identity of the patient standing before you — is that “it’s performing poorly and it’s getting worse,” said Mark LaRow, CEO of Verato, a company that does referential matching. In 2008, the average duplicate rate — in which a healthcare system has duplicate records for the same patient — was about 12%, which...
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