4 results.
Survey: Patient Matching Problems Routine in Healthcare
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kirby, Annessa; Landsbach, Grant; Lusk, Katherine; Munns, Megan; Noreen, Neysa; O'Connor, Michele; Patten, Melinda
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 06, 2016
A recent survey with AHIMA members revealed that over half of HIM professionals routinely work on mitigating possible patient record duplicates at their facility, and of those 72 percent work on mitigating duplicate records weekly. Contributing to the issue, less than half (47 percent) of....
Losing the Match Game: Study Reveals Gaps in HIM’s Patient Identity Integrity Practices
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kirby, Annessa; Kadlec, Lesley; Landsbach, Grant; Lusk, Katherine; Munns, Megan; Noreen, Neysa; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
In healthcare, matching patients accurately to their medical history across multiple care sites and among various sources of data has become increasingly important as healthcare data is shared across platforms. Additionally, as clinicians need to interact with third parties and provide car....
IG and Patient ID: A Perfect Match
Author: Noreen, Neysa; Lusk, Katherine; Kadlec, Lesley
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: March 2016
Why is patient matching important? Why is information governance (IG) important?
And how are the two linked together?
IG starts at the creation of information and patient matching starts at the time the patient information is being created. Part of resolvin....
Data Migration Lessons Learned: One Facility Relates Hard-learned Best Practices After Migrating to a New EHR
Author: Noreen, Neysa
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2013
During the planning stages of a new electronic health record (EHR) implementation at Children's Hospitals and Clinics, Minnesota's PACE clinic, discussions began regarding what needed to be done with the legacy EHR's historical data. Discussions moved quickly to migrating the data from the....