Epic Identity is a robust patient identity management solution within the Epic ecosystem that ensures healthcare organizations can maintain consistent, error-free patient records across their systems. By preventing duplicate records, resolving discrepancies, and integrating data from multiple sources, Epic Identity creates a unified and reliable patient record and enhances overall care coordination.
In this article, we’ll explore the features, benefits, and transformative potential of the Epic Identity application in improving data integrity and patient safety across healthcare organizations.
Key Features of the Identity Application
Duplicate Record Prevention and Resolution
Epic Identity helps healthcare organizations identify and eliminate duplicate patient records using advanced algorithms, ensuring a single, accurate patient record is maintained across all systems.
Real-Time Patient Matching
The Epic Identity solution ensures accurate patient identification in real time by utilizing matching algorithms that verify and link records as they are created or updated.
Enterprise-Wide Patient Record Management
The application seamlessly consolidates patient information from multiple sources, providing a unified view of patient data across an organization’s entire network.
Interoperability and Integration
Designed to work seamlessly within the Epic ecosystem and with external systems, Epic Identity supports interoperability by sharing and syncing data across platforms for better care coordination.
Improving Patient Data Security
The Epic Identity platform helps organizations implement robust security measures to protect sensitive patient data, ensure accurate and up-to-date patient information, and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data. By efficiently managing patient records, including identifying and resolving duplicate patient records, Epic Identity makes it easier to reduce critical data errors and improve overall patient care.
The Identity application offers pre-built integrations with the rest of the Epic environment, providing 360-degree visibility and a unified approach to governing access to critical health systems. This way, healthcare organizations can minimize the risks associated with misidentification and streamline critical health information management strategies across organizational units.
Streamlining User Account Management
Epic Identity automates user account provisioning and de-provisioning processes to reduce manual errors, eliminate system downtime, and establish robust connections between systems. By linking employees and user accounts in a single identity manager, Epic Identity streamlines user account management and facilitates the effective provisioning of modifications across the entire landscape.
The Identity platform also enables organizations to accommodate organization-specific requirements by leveraging various methodologies for supplying user accounts to employees. These methods ensure users have the right access to the right information at the right time, further reducing the risk of errors and unauthorized access and improving data accuracy and integrity.
Enhancing Patient Matching and Identification
Organizations can leverage Epic’s Identity application to maintain patient identity and prevent duplicate records. By improving patient identification and data matching, Epic Identity helps organizations maintain an accurate and comprehensive patient data management strategy and reduce duplicate patient record rates across business units.
The Epic Identity application also utilizes real-time duplicate detection capabilities, automated record merging tools, and customizable workflows to streamline patient identification and record management procedures and enhance overall patient care.
Optimizing Epic Identity for Better Care
By facilitating accurate and timely information exchange across the entire Epic landscape, the Identity platform makes it easier for users to consolidate patient identity, insurance, visit, and demographic data and reduce the risk of inaccurate medical records. This enhances the patient care lifecycle by preventing missing medical history and wasted time, ensuring that critical information is readily available to healthcare providers.
Optimized Epic Identity applications empower organizations to improve patient care and establish efficient and accurate resolution strategies for overall data management.
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