Hospitals may share medical records but there is NO universal patient identifier. Your challenge is to identify only Maria's records without including those of all the other Maria Garcias in the system.
The cost of duplicate records or record overlays (those incorrectly flagged as belonging to the same patient) can lead to dire consequences.
Left unchecked, the average duplication rate of medical records is 18%‡. These are just some of the costs of the problem:
Failure to identify matching patient records
leads to massive costs, medical injuries, and even deaths.
A facility with 800,000 records and no EMPI in place
will see, on average:
duplicate records
adverse events
Lost per patient
Millions lost
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