Why Patient Identity Management is Critical for COVID-19 Surveillance

While patient matching has long been a serious industry issue, COVID-19 is reinforcing why we need to address it. In the June issue of the Journal of AHIMA, NextGate’s CTO Daniel Cidon explores why healthcare organizations need to keep data integrity and patient identity management high on the priority list as a way to support public health and accelerate the research community’s ability to gain visibility into the emerging patterns of the disease.