Accuracy
"There is so much more value in stopping those [duplication] problems from happening than dealing with them after the fact."
Sam Owens
Sentara Healthcare
"The number one criteria, or requirement, for CVS was the matching. Matching is critical in our industry. False positives are dangerous. You don’t want to bring profiles together for the wrong people. CVS has zero tolerance for false positives and we felt that Initiate had the best capabilities in this space with their probabilistic engine."
Bill Zuercher
CVS Caremark
"Initiate's role of linking multiple identifiers together for a single patient is critical to patient safety in integrated delivery networks."
Michael Nusbaum
Committee member
"We wanted a machine doing the matching and discriminating rather than a person because it protects patient privacy under HIPAA rules."
Liesa Jo Jenkins
CareSpark
"When someone moves into Brent we will have an infrastructure that enables the council to arrange all services with a single transaction."
Tony Ellis
London Borough of Brent
"This extremely important initiative empowers our state's valuable caregivers with the means to interact and share critical data more efficiently and effectively, resulting in better service to our state's rural and underserving communities."
Sen. Dan Hines
State of Louisana
"Accuracy of patient data is critical to a national health information network. Throughout the entire testing process, we never misidentified a patient."
John Halamka
MA-SHARE
"Initiate's robust search and selection capability at the point of registration is a huge benefit for us and our patients."
Corinne Blair
Capital Health
Scalability & Performance
"We are using Initiate software as a foundational building block for our interoperability solutions. It is cutting across registration needs and across our e-health record needs. So, it is basically a core system for us."
Julie Prough
UPMC
"Having the ability to link your core critical systems through an EMPI is a necessity."
Jim Burke
Carolinas HealthCare System
"The accuracy and speed of the Initiate software provided the highest level of confidence needed for matching of records and adoption of standards endorsed by NHIN."
Liesa Jo Jenkins
CareSpark
"The value of the Initiate system is not necessarily in finding duplicates and weeding them out. The value to our organization is being able to use this as a linkage between two areas of electronic data."
Jerome Wang
Cedars Sinai
"Initiate did a wonderful job of proving that their probabilistic matching algorithm is really superior."
Jenny Witham
State of North Dakota
"We are able to demonstrate appreciation for our guests and recognize their loyalty, regardless of which of our properties they visit."
Gary Thomson
Choice Hotels
"Initiate Interoperable Health is a key part of our strategy to create enterprise-wide electronic medical records and a single clinical data repository from data located across numerous information technology environments and care facilities."
George Brenckle
UMass Memorial Health Care
"Initiate's EMPI solution was a very important factor in achieving the successful launch of the Wait Time Strategy."
Sarah Kramer
Cancer Care Ontario
"The Initiate EMPI gives us a province-wide source of truth for patient information that previously only existed in each region."
Mike Baron
Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information
"A strong EMPI solution is essential to delivering a fast, reliable view of clinical information. Initiate software is an important asset. "
Bob Beckley
SureScripts LLC
"Initiate takes all of the data streams, identifies the patient associated with the information, and gets it into the right medical records."
Brent Eichman
The Douglas County Individual Practice Association, Inc.
Speed & Ease of Integration
"We found Initiate pretty easy to plug into our architecture, not very demanding and easy to work with."
Jenny Witham
State of North Dakota
"We were literally up and running in six business days. It was truly interoperable communicating with the Indiana and California regional data exchanges."
John Calladine
CSC
"Initiate technology is extremely flexible and allows us to accurately link disparate and fragmented records to create a single comprehensive patient record."
Omar Mrani
SQLI
"The Initiate software is so easy to configure. The tool sets were great, and the resources we had working with us from Initiate were fantastic. They were able to provide the IT direction for us."
Kathy Sadler
Saskatchewan Health Information Network
Experience and Expertise
"I highly recommend the Initiate products in terms of their ability to find and identify trends that can be useful for improving data integrity. "
Steven Kos
Baylor Health Care Systems
"Mitsubishi evaluated a number of vendors in the MDM space and chose Initiate over other competitors based on the highly accurate matching and linking capabilities of its software and Initiate's experience in critical healthcare and intelligence fields."
Ray Tomlinson
Mitsubishi Motors Australia
"Interoperability requires solid patient identification to ensure presentation of the correct and complete patient record."
Duane Falk
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
"Accurate and joined-up information is the foundation for citizen-centred services, and we believe Initiate can enable local authorities to transform their services."
Dave Meaden
Northgate Public Services
"Initiate software is the cornerstone of the transaction switching capabilities we’ve created at RxHub. The ability to quickly and accurately match patients is the basis for the rest of the transactions we support."
J.P. Little
RxHub
"We have been using Initiate for six years now, and they have proved to be a reliable partner that has also been flexible and agile. They are really innovative, really pushing the technology forward. We’ve been able to benefit from that relationship."
Bryan Scott
Humana
"I would recommend Initiate to anybody, especially if you have anything to do with healthcare. They really should be on the short, short list, because they understand the language of healthcare. They can really help you deal with those types of problems that you deal with in healthcare data. But they can also help across other domains. To be able to speak in those multiple areas, it is very rare that you find vendors that are able to do that."
Bryan Scott
Humana
"The Initiate technology is well suited to our strategic business requirements. In addition to the strength of their technology, Initiate Systems’ understanding of the real-world issues surrounding data quality is stronger than their competitors’."
Mark Johnston
Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML)
"We have found that Initiate's experience meets our needs for flexibility, interoperability and the unique privacy and security requirements we demand."
Jack Wolf
Emerging Health Information Technology
"The Initiate people are great. The technology is wonderful, scalable, flexible. It is everything that we’ve looked for with the solution. We are very happy with Initiate as a provider."
Julie Prough
UPMC
"Initiate’s adherence to IHE standards was of particular interest to us, as it enables us to facilitate the interoperability necessary for interaction with the NHS and between our disparate in-house systems. It also provides a firm foundation for future developments."
Chris Cook
Nuffield Health Group
"Initiate was the only vendor that could meet our increasingly demanding needs for accurate patient identification, reduction of data duplication, and interoperability."
Paul Sikora
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center