Imprivata, the healthcare IT security company, today announced that it has joined CommonWell Health Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association, dedicated to creating universal access to health data via a person-centered, nationwide network. As a General Member, Imprivata will contribute its expertise in the area of Positive Patient Identification to help break down barriers to nationwide data exchange.
Imprivata PatientSecure is a positive patient identification solution that creates a 1:1 match between individual patients and their unique medical records, more accurately retrieving patients' digital health records using biometric identification across multiple points of care. The system reduces duplicate medical records and insurance fraud, and increases patient safety by ensuring that the correct care is provided to the correct patient, based upon the correct information.
“Interoperability is the key to bringing the enormous power of technology to bear on healthcare, the way that it has in other industries,” commented Gus Malezis, President and CEO of Imprivata. “Only when patient health information (PHI) can be exchanged between care providers and health systems with confidence - securely, reliably, and with precise digital identity - will we see the full potential that innovation can have on care. To reach that goal we need to ensure the positive identification of patients, and the ability to unequivocally match patients to their health records. Imprivata is honored to contribute that expertise to this important cause and proud to join CommonWell Health Alliance.”
CommonWell and its members have committed to using their diverse experience across the healthcare ecosystem to produce and deploy patient-centric interoperability services — including person enrollment, record location, patient identification and linking, and data query and retrieval. At their core, these services aim to solve the challenges associated with patient linking and identity at scale.
“CommonWell is made stronger by the unique and specific qualities each member brings to our organization,” said Nick Knowlton, Membership Committee chair for CommonWell Health Alliance and vice president at Brightree. “We are excited to welcome Imprivata as we continue to deploy our person-centric interoperability services nationwide.”
Imprivata joins the Alliance with the intention to contribute to making interoperability ubiquitous in healthcare. To date, nearly 70 companies are members of CommonWell.