“Dive Brief:
Efforts to accurately match patient records will continue to challenge providers, payers and others, with no one-size-fits-all approach to ensuring that information in different health records refers to the same patient, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says in a Tuesday report to Congress…”
“Dive Insight:
Patient matching is a huge problem in healthcare and a major barrier in achieving full interoperability. Mismatching patients and records can lead to missed diagnoses or treatments, putting patient safety at risk. Over a 30-month period in 2013 to 2015, ECRI’s Patient Safety Organization counted 7,613 wrong-patient events voluntarily reported by 181 healthcare organizations.”
“Patient matching is also time-consuming. A 2015 survey…” Read the full article here.
Source: No single solution to patient matching challenge, GAO says – By Meg Bryant, January 16, 2019. Healthcare Dive.
