Tag: patient identity
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...
How data insights help prevent medical identity theft...
Medical identity theft is a growing concern for healthcare organizations in the digital age. In 2017, healthcare data breaches accounted for 24% of all...
How to safeguard patient data and prevent medical iden...
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...
How to boost patient engagement with patient portals...
“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...