This paper was originally published in the Winter 2020 issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management. It is been reproduced in its entirety here, with the authors’ permission.
Tag: patient identificatiom and matching
A Realistic Approach to Achieving a 1% Duplicate Record Error Rate
Patient identification and matching (PIM) is vital to delivery of safe and efficient care, and misidentification errors have been a recurring challenge in healthcare, resulting in administrative inefficiencies, serious injuries,…