Tag: identity management
It’s amazing to look back at how far medical science and digital technology have come – and how those two worlds are increasingly intertwined....
When a doctor pulls up a patient’s record, it should be a safe assumption that the information on the screen relates to the patient...
Medical identity theft is a growing concern for healthcare organizations in the digital age. In 2017, healthcare data breaches accounted for 24% of all...
Medical identity theft is a growing problem for the healthcare industry: nearly 15.1 million patient records were compromised in 2018, an increase of nearly...
“Build it and they will come” might work for 1980s movie characters, multinational coffee franchises and beloved sports teams, but it’s not a great...
Patient identity is the backbone of the healthcare system. However, when patient records are mismatched, overlaid, or incomplete, it can lead to serious and...
Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) heralded the mainstreaming of electronic medical records over two decades ago, healthcare organizations have been...
There’s no doubt that identity theft is a concern for any industry that handles sensitive customer information; health care is no exception. In 2017...
In a recent healthcare information technology survey, more than 40 percent of chief information officers identified patient matching as healthcare’s top IT concern. And though a...