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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.
The Crucial Role of EMPIs in Fostering Successful Interoperability and Innovation in Healthcare
Healthcare systems are often composed of multiple software applications and databases that do not naturally communicate with each other. EMPIs bridge the gap by reconciling patient identities and enabling seamless data exchange among these systems. This more accurate, comprehensive view of a patient’s health record is crucial for the success of interoperability and other technology initiatives.
Double Whammy: Epic Users Hit Twice as Hard
The recent increase in California's healthcare workers' minimum wage to $25 per hour is estimated to cost $4 billion in the 2024-25 fiscal year alone. With additional states expected to follow, this adds a layer of financial strain for hospitals. Meanwhile, Epic users are seeing more errors in their identity queues than ever – errors that require time-intensive review.
Six Reasons Your EHR is Not an Adequate Patient Identity Solution
EHRs are invaluable tools for managing patient healthcare information within a healthcare organization. However, they have limitations when it comes to achieving positive patient identity – ensuring that you correctly identify each patient consistently across different systems and encounters.
HIM Challenges: Patient Data Integrity and AI/Advanced Analytics
In For the Record, Rachel Podczervinski discusses the role of a clean MPI/EMPI in optimizing advanced technology investments.
Galen Healthcare Solutions and Harris Data Integrity Solutions Partner to Streamline EMR Transitions for Enhanced Patient Safety, Data Integrity, and Cost Savings
A strategic offering between Galen Healthcare Solutions and Harris Data Integrity Solutions lets hospitals and health systems minimize data disruptions during EMR system transitions by engaging a single, Best-in-KLAS Services and Archival solution provider to unlock additional value and cost savings through Cleanup, Migrate, and Archive.
Harris Data Integrity Solutions’ Rachel Podczervinski to Discuss AHIMA’s Naming Policy Framework at AHIMA23
Podczervinski will participate in a panel discussion on AHIMA’s newly updated naming policy framework during AHIMA23, where the company will also feature its array of industry leading patient data integrity services and software in Booth #532 in the conference exhibit hall.
Harris Data Integrity Solutions’ Megan Pruente Receives AHIMA Triumph Award
Harris Data Integrity Solutions’ Director of Professional Services, Megan Pruente, MPH, RHIA, received AHIMA’s Community Service: Mentor Award, part of AHIMA’s prestigious Triumph Awards
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.