PER AHIMA*, COST TO REMEDIATE $96 PER RECORD
SurePatient Match Finds Hidden Duplicates
This case study was drawn from a 408-bed California-based acute-care facility client. The Master Patient Index total was just over 950K. This hospital used one of the top 5 EHR systems. They had been acquired by a hospital system of two other facilities using a different top 5 EHR system and were preparing for an electronic health record conversion to this hospital system
Total Master Patient Index: 959,517
Post deployment, the initial discovery by SurePatient reported 25.62% suspected duplicates
Confirmed Duplicate Records Total: 32,964
Unresolved records** after SurePatient deployment: 1.88%
*American Health Information Management Association, https://www.ahima.org/
**Unresolved records are suspected duplicates that are unable to be confirmed
