QuadraMed Launches Next-Generation Identity Management Solution
Posted on: Thursday, 7 August 2008, 12:01 CDT
QuadraMed, a developer of IT solutions for healthcare, has launched its Smart Identity Exchange, a next-generation identity management solution that helps hospitals and health information exchanges in their efforts to identify, reconcile and manage patient records to reduce the potential for medical errors and needless expenses such as unnecessary tests and procedures.
Adding another tool to QuadraMed's KLAS portfolio of identity management solutions (IMS), Smart Identity Exchange (Smart I/X) is both an enterprise master person index (EMPI) and a record locator and reconciliation solution designed for organizations that require a means of more accurately identifying patients and establishing and maintaining a composite medical record across multiple data sources.
According to the company, the solution helps organizations comply with HIPAA and uses a probabilistic algorithm to analyze all records stored in an organization's MPI systems, cross-references and reconciles them, then assigns each patient a single enterprise identifier.
The company said that its Smart I/X uses probabilistic matching to identify and link patient records - widely regarded by industry experts as the best practice approach to record matching because of its accuracy rate of 90% or higher. Organizations can utilize the algorithm's probabilistic logic combined with organization-specific rules to automatically link records to minimize manual review and reconciliation.
According to the company, with Smart I/X, integrated delivery networks (IDNs)can create a longitudinal view of clinical and financial data for sharing patient records, tracking patient populations, monitoring quality of care indicators, producing accurate billing statements and connecting to HIEs. Smart I/X enhances the quality of care for patients within the health system and improves the organization's operational efficiency.
Keith Hagen, president and CEO of QuadraMed, said: "Smart I/X significantly improves an IDNs ability to deliver consistent and cost-effective high quality care by providing physicians immediate access to comprehensive patient information to help them make more informed and safe decisions at the point of care. In addition to efficiently unifying individual patients's historical and most current information, Smart I/X enhances enterprise-wide care coordination and minimizes duplicate and overlapping records, all of which reduce unnecessary tests, treatments and medical errors."
Source: Datamonitor
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