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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.

Eliminating MPI/EMPI Roadblocks to Optimize IT, Advance Interoperability
Clean patient data is the foundation for digital transformation. By ensuring that the MPI/EMPI has no duplicate or overlaid patient records, any technology initiative can set the stage for an accelerated ROI and optimized benefits.

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.
University Hospitals Selects Harris Data Integrity Solutions for UH Lake Health MPI Data Conversion
Harris Data Integrity Solutions has been engaged by University Hospitals (UH) to undertake a comprehensive cleanup of UH Lake Health’s Master Patient Index (MPI) in preparation for the facility’s migration to Epic.
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.
Harris Data Integrity Solutions Simplifying Patient Matching with Expertise and Innovation
Colorado-based Harris Data Integrity Solutions cleanses MPI contaminations with its blend of unmatched industry expertise and advanced technology solutions geared toward mitigating ever-evolving patient matching and data integrity challenges.
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.
Harris Healthcare’s Data Integrity Solutions, RightPatient Partnership Closes the Gap on Efficient, Accurate and Secure Patient Identification
Biometric protections from RightPatient perfectly complement our existing suite of patient data integrity solutions by guarding against creation of new duplicate and overlaid patient records at the point of registration, while we focus on creating and maintaining a pristine MPI/EMPI environment and supporting rapid and accurate patient identification.
Just Associates, QuadraMed Power Harris Healthcare’s Data Integrity Solutions
Together, these highly experienced organizations will provide clients with best-in-class, industry-leading data integrity services and software that address key health information issues by reducing potential duplicate medical records and minimizing the ongoing cost of maintaining quality patient data.