Patchy patient data has plagued the healthcare industry for decades, but the pandemic opened the door to a whole new set of identity management...
Editor’s note: This blog post was updated on October 2, 2023. In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the need for a standardized approach to...
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...
The roll-out of patient portals has been a slow burn. While consumer finance, retail and other markets have given customers secure electronic access to...
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...
Not every healthcare organization embraced electronic medical records (EMRs) at first. But the incentives and regulations put in place by Meaningful Use and the...
There’s no question that portals increase patient engagement. According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, almost eight in 10 patients appreciate the...