Mortality linkage validation of a large health care system’s EHR with state and national death registries

Dr. Conway and her colleagues validated the linkage of West Virginia University Medicine’s Electronic Health Record, including over 1 million patients, with the Social Security Death Masterfile, the National Death Index, and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources vital statistics death registry.  This validation study was recently published in  Applied Clinical Informatics.  You can read more about it here.