Like patient data, provider data exists across a healthcare network in multiple disparate systems, such as human resources, credentialing and provisioning, licensing and various laboratory systems. This data often is incompatible between internal systems, causing redundancy and inconsistency. As a result, communication with providers regarding patient care is delayed and information is sometimes misrouted. This issue can cause providers to discontinue patient referrals, causing a negative impact on a health system’s bottom line.

“Initiate Provider Management is ideal for hospitals with multiple credentialing systems that want to align license, specialization and contact information across their enterprise,” said Brian Vile, Initiate’s vice president, product strategy. “Having the right information available about the providers enables the health system to increase referrals through physician recruitment programs and push clinical results to the right community physicians.”

Initiate Provider Management enables organizations to create a master view of each provider by linking together different representations of provider data. This capability makes it easy to maintain up-to-date contact and credentialing information, while sharing this information with downstream systems and processes across a network. It also provides visibility into the relationships between providers and their patients that exist in the data.

Built upon proven Initiate products - Initiate Master Data Service® and Initiate InspectorT -Initiate Provider Management enables hospitals to link provider and patient registries, offering a more holistic view of clinicians and patient care. Initiate’s unique capability to present graphically patients, providers and their relationships improves a health system’s understanding of its highest referring providers. This capability also helps health systems target programs to keep providers satisfied and loyal to the health system.

Additional benefits of the new solution include:

*Improving Care Coordination - With up-to-date contact information, hospitals can ensure that referring physicians remain informed about the status of a patient’s care.

*Measuring Outcomes - Greater visibility of referral and treatment relationships across patients and providers allows healthcare organizations to associate providers to patient outcomes and to measure the quality of patient care by provider.

*Consistency in Data Quality - By aggregating data from disparate systems, defined standards can be used to communicate provider information. As a result, data entry errors are reduced and self-reported data can be verified from the primary source, such as NPPES and NPI.

*Improved Physician Recruitment and Retention - A hospital enterprise that fosters an atmosphere of communication with its providers has fewer problems verifying credentials and tracking referrals, resulting in improved retention rates.

About Initiate Systems:
Initiate Systems enables organizations to confidently share critical data assets. Multinational corporations, healthcare organizations and government agencies rely on Initiate® software and services to deliver complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems, domains or databases. Initiate’s multi-domain master data management (MDM) solutions facilitate interoperability, information sharing, entity resolution and data quality to increase revenues, reduce costs and mitigate risks. Initiate operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and in Toronto, London and Sydney. For more information, visit www.initiate.com.