Patient Identification

The University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen has shown how two IT structures can be merged successfully.

Successful treatment of complex diseases like cancer requires expertise and know-how from many departments and specialists.

The Master Patient Index pays off for hospitals - both financially and in quality of care.

Collaboration across departments and sectors is taking on increasing importance in healthcare.

GE Centricity Clinical Archive brings together all patient images and documents to enable doctors making quicker and more informed decisions.

A look at the inner workings of the Master Patient Index.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) holds members’ information with the utmost confidentiality and care.

IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has one goal: to improve communication between various IT systems and medical devices.

International standards are essential to successful collaborations in the healthcare industry.

Reliable patient identification is a prerequisite for every cross-enterprise data exchange.