Centennial, CO - (NewMediaWire) - February 02, 2016 - Just Associates, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in patient matching and health information data integrity and management, announced today that Julie A. Dooling has joined the firm as a senior consultant. Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, will assist Just Associates clients with overall data integrity and patient identity and matching efforts.

Dooling brings to Just Associates a rich background in health information management (HIM). During her tenure with AHIMA, she led the association’s informatics and data analytics service line, including managing patient identity and matching initiatives at the federal level. Previous experience includes owning and operating a transcription service, serving as HIM manager of a large integrated healthcare delivery system, and providing sales support and operational management for leading document management vendors serving the U.S. and Canada.

“Patient identity and matching are significant challenges in healthcare today, drawing increasingly intense scrutiny from regulatory and credentialing agencies, industry associations, health information exchange proponents and other key stakeholders,” said Just Associates CEO and President Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA. “Julie’s federal experience and multi-faceted HIM expertise are the perfect addition to our highly skilled team of identity professionals.”

Just Associates specializes in identity data integrity and quality solutions for health information exchange organizations (HIOs) and healthcare provider and payer markets. It provides expert Health Information Technology (HIT) services in every aspect of identity data quality, from initial assessments and data analysis to full scale MPI and Provider clean-ups and outsourced solutions that eliminate duplicate records and identify their causes. By helping organizations identify and resolve identity data integrity issues and ensure accurate linking of patient information, Just Associates helps its customers improve patient care quality and safety, decrease care delivery errors and reduce overall costs.

Dooling holds a Master of Science in Health Informatics and Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration from the University of Cincinnati. She is active in her AHIMA component state association, the Missouri Health Information Management Association (MOHIMA). 

 About Just Associates, Inc. A recognized leader in health information data integrity and management, Just Associates, Inc. (www.justassociates.com) is a healthcare data integration consulting firm that delivers superior value to its clients through improved patient matching. Just Associates has the process expertise and systems knowledge to deliver tailored, value-added solutions that improve clients’ financial outcomes and business processes, support delivery of quality patient care, and meet the expectations of diverse stakeholders through improved data integrity.

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