Tag: patient identity
COVID-19 vaccine management: Impact of duplicate medic...
The urgency to move quickly and vaccinate the population has introduced an entirely new set of challenges for providers regarding patient identity. Many continue...
Patient perspectives on the state of patient access...
How has the pandemic affected consumer attitudes around patient access? What do consumers want when it comes to accessing care? These are the questions...
Ditch activation codes and automate portal enrollment ...
For many healthcare consumers, visiting patient portals to check medical records, schedule appointments, renew prescriptions and pay bills is a no-brainer. Accessible from multiple...
How to avoid patient misidentification and claims deni...
For many of the 36 million Americans who have registered for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus outbreak, losing their job means losing their health...
100% of the U.S. population now has a Universal Patien...
At the end of 2019, Experian Health announced that every person in the U.S. population, an estimated 328 million Americans, had successfully been assigned...
How healthcare organizations can stop patient medicati...
Did you ever have someone tell you, “there’s no magic pill” for reaching a goal? It’s a somewhat ironic analogy, given that so many...
Top 5 benefits of healthcare interoperability...
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...
How consumer data can improve population health and lo...
Last week, I spoke at the technology briefing of a national health plan group to give a presentation on the role of consumer data...
How a Universal Patient Identifier can help solve phar...
Last week, I attended the ONC Symposium on Patient Matching for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) and conversations with pharmacy stakeholders confirmed that momentum is growing...