Butler Health System deploys patient matching technologies

Butler (Pa.) Health System implemented solutions from LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Occam Technologies to enhance its patient-matching capabilities.

The health system used Occam's Master Patient Index platform and LexisNexis' LexID solution to match records for 740,000 unique patients contained in six different EMR systems. The health system layered LexID technology on top of Occam's eMPI platform.

The health system includes a 296-bed hospital, 36 ambulatory locations and more than 50 physician offices. It is in the process of establishing a population health initiative, "but this would not have been possible without having patient records properly matched," said Thomas McGill, MD, vice president quality and chief medical information officer at Butler Health System. "To meet our objectives, we needed data integrity."

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