“Is this claim valid? How much is our financial responsibility?” These are the two big questions payers want to answer when adjudicating healthcare claims....
Halloween might be over, but healthcare fraud – or simple input errors – can transform a patient’s identity into something completely different. The negative...
Any kind of identity mix-up is disturbing, but when it occurs within the healthcare system, the fallout can be severe. At best, misidentifying patients...
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...
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...
Last week, I spoke at the technology briefing of a national health plan group to give a presentation on the role of consumer data...
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...
Medical identity theft is a growing concern for healthcare organizations in the digital age. In 2017, healthcare data breaches accounted for 24% of all...
Patient identity is the backbone of the healthcare system. However, when patient records are mismatched, overlaid, or incomplete, it can lead to serious and...