Healthcare providers meeting today's challenges with Initiate software for Healthcare

Managing patient identities accurately and on demand can be impaired—even derailed—if the data is fragmented, incomplete or inaccurate. An Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) that merely merges information to create a compressed view of the patient or provider is not enough.

With better, on-demand identity management, you can get a full history and single complete view of each patient across your facilities and affiliated organizations—enabling you to focus on delivering the best possible patient care.

To achieve better patient care through improved data, you must develop and attack a strategy for managing patient identity data and deploy the technology that enables real-time access to the most current information from across the healthcare delivery network, whether across a facility, an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) or a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO). But the barriers to achieving this are real:

• Patient information is often disjointed, incomplete, inaccurate or inaccessible
• System-wide access to basic patient or member information can be virtually non-existent
• Continual consolidation across the healthcare industry increases the volume of records and the number of systems managing the growing volume of records
• Organizations migrating from legacy systems to newer technology often force a conversion processes that is prone to creating duplicate records
• Names are often misspelled when patients are checking in, especially in emergency situations
• A single practitioner can have both group and solo practiceswhile sometimes leaving groups and relocating, leading to practices in multiple states with varying state license and tax ID numbers
• Organizational issues often impede standardization and/or change
• Traditional identity management and data integration processes are invasive and can cause disruption to day-to-day patient care
• Patient data volumes can be huge, impeding real-time searching and matching

The foundation for supporting on-demand patient data integration

Initiate software, the leading EMPI solution, can be the lifeblood of your patient data integration strategy. With over two billion records analyzed, we have the expertise to leverage data from across your facilities, network and affiliated organizations to create a single complete view of patient profiles you need to:

• Improve patient care
• Ensure accuracy
• Streamline billing and operations
• Provide strategic decision support
• Drive profitability
• Consistently comply with HIPAA and state regulations regarding patient privacy

Simply stated, our EMPI provides the most accurate, non-invasive, efficient method for instantly linking all of your records about each of your patients across your facilities and affiliated organizations.

Initiate software enables organizations to:

• Create a trusted system of record for your entire enterprise, and use it in real time in your clinical, operational and transactional systems
• Leverage your existing infrastructure while minimizing ongoing maintenance and management costs
• Get secure, on-demand access to all demographic and treatment records when and where you need it
• Improve billing efficiencies by accurately matching patient ID records in real time across multiple systems, increasing customer service and satisfaction
• Better support HIPAA regulations and comply with other state regulations
• Achieve higher accuracy with the most effective statistical data identity methods
• Eliminate data latency
• Set scoring thresholds that meet your needs—you can set more stringent scoring criteria for the most critical applications

We deliver:

• The most accurate results on demand, regardless of volume
• The scalability to add systems and records as the organization grows, or to aid participation in IDNs or RHIOs
• The experience and expertise stemming from analyzing over 2 billion records and deploying at over 1500 healthcare sites
• Speedy deployments with minimal disruption to your day-to-day operations
• New insight for your organizational, clinical and patient care needs
• Data profiling and basic set-up in under one month
• All without forcing you to move large quantities of data, standardize systems or manage patient identifiers

 Learn more about the Initiate software.