EMPIs, MSPs, and the cloud: Patient ID matching's next big opportunity

摘要

In the face of accountable care, providers are devoting more resources to health data management in order to improve outcomes, enhance efficiencies, glean insight, and reduce costs. To achieve these goals, many healthcare organizations are enlisting the help of managed service providers (MSPs) to optimize their increasingly complex IT environment. As more healthcare organizations continue to turn to cloud-based applications to remove the traditional shackles of infrastructure, CIOs and other health IT decision-makers are realizing they can further maximize their efforts by teaming with an experienced MSP that can help them aggregate and orchestrate their data for greater accuracy, transparency, and fluidity across the enterprise. Now that deployment of cloud computing across healthcare systems is being embraced, organizations are in a better position to develop an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) that will eliminate errors, improve data integrity, and mitigate the risks of patient record duplication. Leveraging an MSP to effectively manage the EMPI is an attractive option growing in popularity as organizations look to overcome the integration and interoperability challenges of a growing multi-vendor healthcare environment.