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In its first year at Medica, HealthRules Promote supported more than 400 configuration projects and yielded an estimated $750,000 cost savings, according to the company.

Cloud-based indexing can fix duplicate patient records, improving interoperability and patient outcomes for health information exchanges like etHIN.

Investigators used natural language processing and deep learning to explore the prevalence of patient information duplicated from prior notes in medical records.

Patient and provider experiences have to be top-of-mind in the year ahead, with special attention to stressed hospital workers and underserved populations, healthcare vendor leaders say.

Dr. Oleg Bess, a practicing physician and CEO of 4medica, discusses how technology and clinical informatics can help solve challenges such as duplication and overlay, and enable more effective decision support.

The Idaho Health Data Exchange goes beyond many traditional HIEs, incorporating advanced data sharing capabilities and actionable data insights. Its master patient index has proven quite useful during COVID-19.

This case study looks at a health information network that has gone from zero uniquely identified patients to 7.6 million – and nearly all major health systems statewide are set to participate in its Common Key Service.

The technology alone won’t fix patient ID issues but it can bring some of the data accessibility, interoperability, integrity and security hospitals need.