Alarmingly, hospitals on average misidentify between 7 percent and 10 percent of incoming patients when registration staff search the EHR database for patient records, according to Imprivata. Not only does this pose a serious threat to patient safety during medical treatment, but it also has a quantifiable effect on hospital cash flow by increasing a hospital’s denial rate.
In fact, errors made during registration processes account for between 30 and 40 percent of all denials.
Aaron Miri, vice president of government relations and CIO at Imprivata, Justyna Evlogiadis, product marketing manager at Imprivata, and Mollie Drake, former senior director of corporate access management at San Diego-based Scripps Health, will discuss how biometric tools that use palm vein identification can reduce claims denials and improve financial health during a webinar at 12:00 p.m. CT on Oct. 27.
Webinar registrants will learn the root causes of patient registration errors and best practices to prevent patient misidentification from occurring.
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