Featured Quotes

 "Initiate Systems has exceeded our expectations in terms of implementation time, flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Initiate's EMPI solution was a very important factor in achieving the successful launch of the Wait Time Strategy."

Sarah Kramer
Cancer Care Ontario

“We evaluated a number of other options, and Initiate Systems was the best CDI solution that could provide the B2B hierarchy management we needed and meet our accuracy, performance, and scalability requirements. Initiate’s advanced matching technology, combined with its ability to integrate with enterprise-class Microsoft products, created a global solution for our CDI needs.”

Tony Ulkekul, Microsoft

"Initiate Systems was the only vendor that could scale to meet our increasingly demanding needs for accurate patient identification, reduction of data duplication, and interoperability with other systems.“

Paul Sikora, The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

"Accuracy of patient data is critical to the success of a national health information network. Initiate software and its probabilistic algorithms provided us with the highest level of accuracy. Throughout the entire testing process, we never misidentified a patient."

John Halamka, MA-SHARE

"Integrating Initiate software into our infrastructure was fast and straightforward. We were literally up and running in six business days. The performance and reliability of the system when doing demographic searches on our test database was impressive. It was truly interoperable in communicating with the Indiana and California regional data exchanges."

John Calladine, CSC

“Accurate, complete customer views are the foundation of our strategic initiative to improve the customer experience. Accenture and Initiate Systems understand our technology goals and are helping us turn data records into a database that can better serve our customers’ needs.”

Terri Pucin, Barnes & Noble

“One of the most critical elements in a project of this scope is an EMPI solution that can quickly and accurately identify a patient and deliver their complete health record to the point of care. We have found that Initiate’s experience meets our needs for flexibility, interoperability and the unique privacy and security requirements we demand.”

Jack Wolf, Emerging Health Information Technology 

“Mitsubishi evaluated a number of vendors in the MDM space and chose Initiate over other competitors based on the highly accurate matching and linking capabilities of its software and Initiate’s experience in the critical healthcare and intelligence fields. Mitsubishi recognises this can provide competitive advantage as a leader in customer satisfaction.”

Ray Tomlinson, Mitsubishi Motors Australia

“[P]atient identification is a step that, if you don’t get it right, can cause a lot of problems downstream. That’s why we placed the Initiate system at the center of the network. It takes all of the data streams, identifies the patient associated with that information, and gets the information into the right medical record."

Brent Eichman, The Douglas County Individual Practice Association, Inc. (DCIPA)

"In addition to the strength of their technology, Initiate Systems’ understanding of the real world issues surrounding data quality is stronger than their competitors’.”

Mark Johnston, Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML)

"After an evaluation of 20 potential suppliers, Initiate came out as the clear winner. esure’s goal is to offer a superior service and in Initiate we have found a company as innovative and forward thinking as ourselves and we look forward to working with them.”

Mark Foulsham, eSure

“With customers around the world, it is essential that we have a complete and accurate view of their service contracts, sales and support data and that we understand the relationships between our customers. The implementation of Initiate Systems software will help us move toward a 360-degree customer view with minimal interruption to our business.”

Michael Beamer, National Instruments

“We are confident that our MPI has a very accurate level of discriminating among patients. We wanted a machine doing the matching and discriminating rather than a person doing it by hand because it protects patient privacy under HIPAA rules.”

Liesa Jenkins, CareSpark

"This is really low-hanging fruit. The cost of this technology is less than 5% of what delivery systems are spending on EMRs, and having the ability to link your core critical systems through an EMPI is a necessity."

Jim Burke, Carolinas HealthCare System

“Because alternative sources of care in the rural community are scarce, each care provider plays a critical role in supporting the local healthcare system. The advanced technologies we’ve selected for this program are designed to improve access to real-time patient data, expand local access to needed specialty services, and increased collaboration on a patient’s condition by referring doctors or nurse practitioners.”

Jamie Welch, Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition