
MATCH IT Act: What Every Hospital Needs to Know About Patient Identity Management
Congress has reintroduced the bipartisan MATCH IT Act, legislation designed to tackle patient identity errors, duplicate records and mismatched data in healthcare.
Congress has reintroduced the bipartisan MATCH IT Act, legislation designed to tackle patient identity errors, duplicate records and mismatched data in healthcare.
Duplicate patient records quietly drain hospital resources, costing approximately $1,950 per inpatient stay, with serious financial and patient safety ramifications.
Traditional MPIs depend on deterministic and probabilistic matching methods, both of which routinely miss critical patient duplicates caused by incomplete data, minor name variations, address changes, and other discrepancies. Learn why Beacon Matching™ closes the gap.
The MATCH IT Act may seem daunting for smaller hospitals, but SynchroLink AI makes compliance easy and affordable for any size facility.