(Source: HIMSS - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) HIMSS News November 17, 2015 by Lisa Gallagher, BSEE, CISM, CPHIMS, Vice President, Technology Solutions HIMSS has been working on patient data matching since 2007. We define this term as: 'Identifying, matching, and/or merging records, stored in multiple applications or databases, belonging to the same patient.' The bottom line is that because no safe, national-level, and effective solution exists to identify and accurately link patients with their clinical data, patients may...
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