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Montefiore CIO on patient ID and population health

Author: Rob Macmillan
Published: March 17, 2015
Category: Patient Matching
Tags: identifierpatient matching

A basic challenge we face

One of the "Basic challenges that we face" says Jack Wolf, Montefiore Medical Center's Chief Information Officer "is the lack of a unique patient identifier".

'When you get into population health, tracking these patients is very dependent on being able to uniquely identify that it is the same patient'

A basic challenge we face