For statewide health information exchanges (HIEs) and regional health improvement collaboratives (RHICs), having clean and high-quality data is paramount for reducing the cost of care and improving outcomes.

The core challenge is that duplication issues in patient health data can hinder patient identification and matching, resulting in errors, delays in treatment, unnecessary tests and procedures, misdiagnosis, and denial of claims.

To provide better data quality and matching, 4medica just announced that it is providing health data quality assessments for Civitas Networks for Health’s members, which includes more than one hundred HIEs, RHICs, and quality improvement organizations.

"Our partnership with 4medica will provide significant value to our member community," said Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health, in this press release. "The company's quality assessments can alert members to duplication issues in their patient health data that could be hindering patient identification and matching. Addressing these issues is an essential step to reducing the cost of care and improving outcomes."

4medica's partnership with Civitas Networks for Health reinforces the company's renewed focus on healthcare data quality. To date, the duplication rates uncovered by 4medica's health data assessments range from between 10 to 30 percent depending on the organization. The company's end-to-end Health Data Quality Platform delivers a guaranteed 99 percent patient match rate, helping healthcare organizations normalize dirty data and improve patient safety.

"HIEs and RHICs are essential to improving care coordination, quality, and outcomes," said Gregg Church, president of 4medica. "We're excited to partner with a mission-driven organization like Civitas that is catalyzing these stakeholders to transform care. The opportunity to help HIEs and RHICs improve their data quality through comprehensive assessments can significantly enhance patient identification throughout the continuum of care."

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