GAO Report: Patient Matching Efforts Can Be Significantly Improved

Jan. 18, 2019

There is a lot that can be done—such as implementing common standards for recording demographic data—to improve patient matching, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that closely examined the issue.

The 37 stakeholders that GAO interviewed, including representatives from physician practices and hospitals, described their approaches for matching patients’ records—comparing patient information in different health records to determine if the records refer to the same patient.

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