Interoperability of health data enables linking patients to their records across the healthcare ecosystem, whether they visit their primary care physician, an emergency department, a pharmacy, or any other type of medical facility.

With federal initiatives calling for a nationwide, interoperable electronic health record (EHR), healthcare interoperability is gaining prominence and urgency. As regional healthcare information organizations (RHIOs) and integrated delivery networks (IDNs) form and grow, healthcare interoperability is becoming the key to accurately linking patients across facilities.

In order to link each participating organization’s EHRs, the technology in use must be able to share some fields while obscuring others and protecting patient privacy. Initiate  software has the accuracy and scalability to accommodate a broad range of data elements and can be configured to meet each RHIO or IDN’s unique requirements for data access and security while achieving the highest rates of patient identification and matching. Overcoming siloed, proprietary legacy systems, Initiate software can aid healthcare interoperability by using probabilistic matching methods that can use any available fields for matching, regardless of discrepancies in how each facility tracks its information.

  Read Initiate's IHE Integration Statement.