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Patient deduplication

Keep your patient records in sync for seamless reporting

With patient information stored in multiple EHRs, it’s easy for practices and organizations to create duplicate records. Healthmonix offers 3 solutions to help you ensure your patients are accurately identified, which is a must for successful value-based care reporting.

We’ll collaborate with your team to find the patient-deduplication option that fits your technology and workflows. You can focus on delivering exceptional and efficient care.

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Review our patient-deduplication solutions

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Identifier-based patient deduplication

When a shared patient identifier is available, we’ll match across EHRs and other data sources based on that identifier. Duplicate patients are resolved to a single patient based on the identifier.

We can use identifiers like a medical record number or another identifier you create to represent that multiple records refer to the same patient.

2

Demographic-based patient deduplication

Demographic-based patient deduplication uses data points inherent to the patient. These can include first name, last name, date of birth, zip code, phone number, and Social Security Number.

We use 3-5 client-selected patient demographic data points to complete demographic-based patient deduplication. First name, last name, and date of birth are required. The final datapoint can be chosen based on data available in your source systems.

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Universal Patient Identifier-based patient deduplication

Universal Patient Identifier (UPI)-based patient deduplication extends demographic-based patient deduplication. The UPI database accounts for address changes, name changes, nicknames, aliases, and accidental misspellings. 

If the demographic-based patient deduplication engine can’t match a patient, we check the patient demographic info against the UPI system rather than automatically creating a new patient.