Tag: Universal Identity Manager
How a unique patient identifier gets health plans clos...
Health plans have been fighting against inaccurate member data, incomplete member profiles and duplicate records for years. Without a watertight way to keep track...
The challenges and risks associated with patient ident...
Halloween might be over, but healthcare fraud – or simple input errors – can transform a patient’s identity into something completely different. The negative...
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...
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...
9 common causes of patient misidentification – and how...
Patient identity is the backbone of the entire healthcare system. It’s how the pharmacist knows they’re handing over a prescription to the right person....
The new and improved way to match patient data...
Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) heralded the mainstreaming of electronic medical records over two decades ago, healthcare organizations have been...
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: A New Meth...
Challenge: a disconnected healthcare ecosystem Exchanging information across the healthcare ecosystem and achieving interoperability is a goal and challenge all healthcare organizations share. While...