Chicago (December 7, 2004) - Initiate Systems, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) software and services for managing patient and provider identities, today announced that Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare corporation serving over 20 counties in Georgia, selected Initiate Identity Hub™ software to enable the success of critical information technology initiatives, including the McKesson Horizon Patient Folder and Phillips Inturis (PACs) solutions.
Northeast Georgia realized it was critical to implement an EMPI solution to provide an enterprise-wide foundation for patient identity management and better understand data integrity issues. They wanted a solution that would support and manage record duplication as part of their process going forward. With InitiateSM Data Remediation service and Initiate Identity Hub™ software, Northeast Georgia was able to reduce duplicate patient records to under 1%. The state-of-the-art software also enabled Northeast Georgia’s EMR project to be successful by preventing the creation of duplicate electronic medical records. "Our goal is to improve the health and quality of life for the people in our region," said Mark Jennings, CIO, Outsourcing Services Group at Northeast Georgia Health System. "By equipping our registration staff with the most advanced EMPI solution on the market, we are helping to decrease potential duplication errors, while greatly enhancing patient safety efforts and the success of our EMR initiative."
Northeast Georgia realized immediate benefits with easier patient identification at registration and other points of service. Northeast Georgia recognized that an active front-end integration was a critical and necessary component to its EMPI solution. By making an investment in Initiate Identity Hub™ software, Northeast Georgia can now avoid the creation of new duplicate records by enabling its registration personnel to review potential matches online and in real-time.
"Northeast Georgia has been proactive with its EMR initiative. They clearly understand the risk of data integrity issues to patients and have taken the necessary steps to identify and address any errors and implement preventative software," said Lorraine Fernandes, senior vice president of Initiate Systems' Healthcare Practice. "Not only is Northeast Georgia providing its staff with first class technology to accurately link patients across the health system in real time, the organization is also ensuring the future of its EMR initiative."
About Initiate Systems
Initiate Systems, Inc. (www.initiatesystems.com) is the leading provider of Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) software and services for managing patient and provider data. Initiate Systems provides the most complete, accurate, up-to-the-moment information to all point-of-service applications, transactional systems and business intelligence platforms. Initiate Systems' award-winning Initiate Identity Hub™ software delivers high business value in many industries, including communications, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, the public sector and retail, by instantly finding and accurately linking all the records about a person, household, organization or object across disparate data sources on-demand, regardless of data volume.
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