Case Study: Health Sciences South Carolina achieves statewide interoperability and unified patient records with Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index (Oracle)

Health Sciences South Carolina Improves Community-Wide Care Quality and Research

Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC), a statewide public–private collaborative of four universities and five health systems founded in 2004, needed to eliminate duplicate patient identities and create a single cross-system view of demographic and clinical data to support research, quality improvement, and cohort identification across loosely federated, siloed systems.

HSSC implemented Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index (OHMPI) to achieve interoperability and sophisticated matching across facilities, mapping source medical record numbers to unique enterprise identifiers and linking clinical, lab, and translational records. The solution established a trusted single source of truth, improved data quality and governance, enabled cohort building for population health and translational research, and offered flexible APIs and ETL options for seamless integration.

Health Sciences South Carolina

Rick Larsen

CIO