Data Cleansing, Enrichment, and Attribution for Healthcare Product Data
Healthcare organizations rely on product data to support supply chain operations, clinical workflows, financial accuracy, and system integrations. When that data is incomplete, inconsistent, or poorly attributed, errors propagate across systems and teams. Manual cleanup efforts are time-consuming and rarely sustainable at scale. Symmetric Health Solutions delivers a comprehensive approach to data cleansing, enrichment, and attribution that transforms fragmented product records into a reliable, structured, and continuously maintained dataset.
By addressing data quality at the source, Symmetric helps hospitals replace uncertainty with confidence and create a foundation that supports accuracy across the enterprise.
Cleansing Inconsistent and Fragmented Product Records
Accurate decision making begins with a clean item master, yet hospitals face a fundamental challenge: nearly 30 percent of item master data changes every single year due to manufacturer updates, packaging revisions, regulatory shifts, pricing adjustments, and supplier consolidation. Left unmanaged, this churn quickly erodes data quality, creating duplicates, outdated identifiers, missing attributes, and inconsistent naming that ripple through purchasing, inventory, POU, clinical documentation, and analytics.
Symmetric cleanses item masters at scale, resolving duplicates, standardizing naming conventions, validating manufacturer and supplier lineage, correcting packaging hierarchies, and aligning identifiers across GTIN, UDI, UNSPSC, GMDN, and internal codes. Every record is rebuilt from authoritative sources and cross-checked against our global database to ensure completeness and accuracy.
Clean, harmonized data delivers more than order — it removes rework, reduces exceptions, improves scanning and receiving accuracy, strengthens contract alignment, and ensures ERP and clinical systems operate from a single, accurate source of truth. With a consistent foundation and continuous updates, organizations stay ahead of the inevitable churn rather than falling behind it.
Symmetric proactively provides an infinite amount of ongoing data cleanses in real-time to flow into your ERP.
Once an item master is cleaned, the real challenge is keeping it that way. Product information shifts constantly, and even small changes — a new GTIN, a packaging tweak, a rebranded manufacturer — can cause workflows to break if they aren’t updated quickly.
Symmetric handles this ongoing maintenance automatically. Every night, we refresh your product records with the latest verified details from manufacturers, regulators, and industry sources, so your data stays accurate long after the initial cleanup is complete.
This means fewer exceptions at receiving, smoother scanning at point of use, cleaner contracts and POs, and far less manual work for supply chain and IT teams. Instead of reacting to problems, hospitals stay ahead of them — with an item master that stays clean, current, and dependable across every system that uses it.
Continuous Stewardship That Keeps Data Clean in Real-time
Once the item master is clean, the next step is making sure every product has the information people actually need to use it. Symmetric adds the practical, everyday details that help supply chain, clinicians, finance, and IT understand exactly what each item is and how it should be handled.
We enrich each product with:
Correct identifiers like GTINs, UDIs, and catalog numbers
Clear packaging details that show what “each,” “box,” or “case” really means
Key clinical information such as implantable status, sterility, and latex content
Country of origin and tariff indicators for sourcing and risk planning
Recall and safety information from trusted regulatory sources
Comparable and substitute items to support clinical and sourcing decisions
Accurate classifications like UNSPSC and FDA product categories
Vendor ordering information and other practical details people rely on
Product images, sizes, and dimensions to reduce confusion
These aren’t just technical attributes — they’re the details that make products easy to select, scan, order, document, compare, and manage. With complete and understandable data, teams spend less time guessing and more time getting work done accurately.
Adding the Details That That Power Every Workflow
Clean, Harmonized Data That Improves Every Workflow
Once product data is clean and enriched, its impact is felt across every corner of the hospital. Dozens of systems depend on the same product records — ERPs, POU systems, OR documentation tools, contracting platforms, inventory systems, and analytics dashboards. When each system uses a different version of the same item, errors multiply. When the data is harmonized, everything works smoothly.
Symmetric keeps all systems aligned by sending the same accurate, updated product information everywhere it is needed. This consistency supports:
Purchasing, with clean identifiers and correct units of measure
Receiving, with fewer mismatches and scanning exceptions
Inventory and POU, with packaging that matches what clinicians actually use
OR and clinical documentation, with accurate implantable, sterility, and latex details
Contracting and finance, with correct pricing, codes, and classifications
Analytics and decision support, with trustworthy data powering insights
When every system is pulling from the same accurate source of truth, daily work becomes faster, clearer, and more reliable. Clean data stops being an IT project — it becomes the fuel that keeps the entire hospital running smoothly.
See the Impact with a Complimentary Catalog Audit
A clean, accurate item master transforms the way your hospital operates. If you want to understand exactly where your biggest data gaps are — outdated identifiers, missing attributes, duplicate items, packaging mismatches, or systems out of sync — Symmetric will analyze your catalog and show you the opportunities clearly.
Our complimentary audit highlights:
Missing or outdated GTINs, UDIs, and manufacturer details
Duplicate or conflicting product records
Incorrect or incomplete packaging hierarchy
Gaps in clinical and regulatory attributes
Misaligned or inconsistent classifications
Items with available substitutes or alternatives
Areas where 30 percent annual data churn is already affecting workflows
We’ll give you a clear, actionable view of your data quality — and what it would take to fix it.