Case Study: Utah Department of Health achieves accurate, scalable patient matching for the All Payer Database and faster analytics with Informatica Identity Resolution

The Utah Department of Health freed resources to focus on research collaboration and new health reform initiatives

The Utah Department of Health (UDOH), charged with monitoring the State’s food, air, water and infectious disease outbreaks, partnered with Informatica to support healthcare reform initiatives such as an All Payer Database and episode-of-care analysis. UDOH’s legacy systems could not reliably link claims and vital records over time—staff sometimes spent up to six months linking a single year of inpatient and maternal/infant data—and the agency needed to scale to about 65 million claims annually while ensuring strong patient privacy protections.

Informatica Identity Resolution provided highly accurate, multilanguage identity matching with robust encryption and process safeguards, drastically reducing manual data linkage and enabling scalable automated matching. The solution improved cost transparency for payers, supported better public-health and policy decision making, freed analytic resources for research and new reform initiatives, and accelerated Utah’s All Payer Database and episode-of-care work.

Utah Department of Health

Keely Cofrin Allen

Director, Office of Health Care Statistics