On average, clinicians spend 28.2 minutes per shift searching for correct patient records, according to an Imprivata-sponsored Ponemon Institute survey.
Manual patient identification — which often relies on demographic data or photo identification — is prone to human error. The top three factors that lead to patient misidentification are difficulty finding a patient medical record (68 percent), searching for a patient and finding duplicate medical records (67 percent) and pulling up an incorrect record with the same name or date of birth (61 percent), according to the survey.
If a patient is misidentified during a medical visit, a clinician or registrar might pull up incomplete or incorrect medical records or even begin composing a duplicate one. Incorrect identification not only affects patient care, but can also impact a health system's bottom line — the average hospital loses $17.4 million each year in denied claims because of misidentified patients.
During a webinar sponsored by Imprivata, Beth Haenke Just, president and CEO of Just Associates, and Aaron Miri, CIO and vice president of government relations at Imprivata, will share how to achieve positive patient identification, enterprise master patient index integrity and patient matching across disparate systems.
Tune in to learn best practices for undergoing an EMPI cleanup effort and strategies for improved patient matching across separate EHR and admissions, discharges and transfer systems.
The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, July 20, from 12-1 p.m. CST. To register, click here.