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Tips for Effective Patient Identity Queue Management
When properly managed, identity queues like roster management engine (RME) errors and potential overlays, can lay the foundation for an effective person index – one that minimizes issues and facilitates streamlined care coordination as part of an effective value-based care strategy.
The Importance of Well-Managed Patient Identity Queues
In HIStalk, Megan Pruente shares her insights into the implications of and solutions for patient identity error queue backlogs.
Stop Patient Identity-Related Revenue Leakage
In Healthcare Business Today, Rachel Podczervinski discusses how patient identity issues including duplicate and overlaid patient records contribute to revenue leakage.
Patient Identification Challenges
Megan Pruente shares with For the Record her insights into healthcare’s patient identification problems and proposed patient matching solutions.
Hospital Products Australia and Harris Data Integrity Solutions Partner to Spearhead Patient Data Integrity Revolution
Harris Data Integrity Solutions and Hospital Products Australia have partnered to tackle the challenge of duplicated patient records within Australia's evolving EHR landscape.
Highlights from AHIMA’s 2023 Naming Policy Framework
AHIMA’s Naming Policy Framework 2023: Enhancing Person Matching with Essential Demographic Data Elements provides everything HIM professionals and healthcare organizations need to know about person matching in health IT.
Eric Helbig Joins Harris Data Integrity Solutions as Vice President of Sales
Harris Data Integrity Solutions has appointed Eric Helbig as vice president of sales. He brings more than two decades of executive leadership to his role overseeing sales operations and designing and implementing sales strategies to expand the firm’s footprint among the nation’s leading hospitals and health systems.
Dirty MPIs and the Patient Experience
The patient’s experience is an often-overlooked aspect of patient identification and master patient index (MPI) management. But the impact of a compromised MPI on patient safety and satisfaction is significant.
Stop Patient Identity Related Revenue Leakage
Healthcare finance executives remain laser-focused on revenue growth and retention, including identifying unexpected sources of revenue leakage as part of a holistic revenue cycle management (RCM) strategy.
SDOH, Patient Identification Dominate AHIMA Advocacy Summit 2023
Social determinants of health (SDOH) and unique patient identifiers dominated the discussion when health leaders and policymakers gathered in Washington, DC in April for the AHIMA Advocacy Summit 2023.
Harris Data Integrity Solutions White Paper Explores Healthcare’s $6 Billion Patient Matching Problem
Harris Data Integrity Solutions takes an in-depth examination of the healthcare industry’s chronic people matching problem in its latest white paper, People Matching in Healthcare: Challenges, Impact and Solutions.
A Project US@ Deep Dive: Part One
The Project US@ Companion Guide helps technical experts in healthcare prepare for data capture, although work remains to be done to unify all technology vendors behind the standards. Even so, this moment means we can better navigate outlier cases for address types outside the regular home address, with helpful examples of proper formatting.
Better Together: Harris Data Integrity Solutions
Harris Data Integrity Solutions is the result of investing in the best people to deliver software automation and personalized services that enable healthcare organizations to provide the safest possible patient care while optimizing their limited resources. Together, we leverage innovative technology and unique health management expertise to minimize duplicate medical records, improve revenue cycles and lower costs. Our team of experts understands patient data better than anyone in the industry – because we created the industry.
An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity
From cybersecurity threats and patient self-registration to increased merger activity and the ongoing quest for a 1% maximum duplicate rate, maintaining the integrity of patient data is more complicated than ever. To achieve a secure, accurate and duplicate-free MPI/EMPI requires a multi-pronged approach that protects data from the point it enters the system and ensures it remains pristine with every touch along the way.
An Update on the AHIMA Project US@ Companion Guide
During the AHIMA21 virtual conference, I participated on the “Translating Technical Address Specifications into Operational Best Practice and Guidance for Project US@: ONC and AHIMA Joint Project” panel providing an update on development of the Project US@ Companion Guide along with the final version 1.0 of the Project US@ Technical Specification.