4medica Blog
When Getting Back to Work, Put People First
COVID-19 has had far reaching effects that have impacted our lives to varying degrees, whether it be reduced work hours, salary and benefit reductions, children displaced due to school closures, sick family members and loss of life. Additionally, the economic toll...
Why Cleaning Up Your Dirty Data is Critical to Clinical Interoperability and Financial Survival
Hospital-based and commercial labs are flooded with all types of mismatched patient data. However, disparate systems coupled with a lack of universally mandated data standards and protocols means that big data just gets bigger ─ and clinical interoperability...
Misguided Beliefs Impeding Adoption of a National Patient ID Threaten Patient Safety
Recently, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed legislation to remove the national patient identifier language from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) claiming the creation of a National Patient ID would increase patient privacy risks. I...
Healthcare must keep its data clean, with or without a national patient identifier
Although the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to lift a ban on using federal funding to create national patient identifiers and 4medica was proud to support AHIMA’s support letter calling to strike Section 510 from the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, there is much work to be done to move patient matching forward in the healthcare industry.