Patient misidentification is a costly—and occasionally devastating—problem for healthcare organizations that impacts patients, providers, and payers in different ways. New techniques, however, have emerged to help achieve demonstrable and sustainable reductions in patient misidentification and deliver a high-integrity enterprise master patient index (EMPI).
This topic, along with numerous best practices already employed by healthcare organizations, was the focus of a webinar by the same name, featuring Beth Just, CEO of Just Associates and Carl Bertrams, VP of Imprivata PatientSecure®, the company’s biometric patient identification solution. This analyst report summarizes the highlights of this webinar.