When a patient walks into a hospital, there’s no guarantee that patient’s medical records will be accessible to providers, or that the medical records are indeed the correct ones for that particular ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...

The American Hospital Association is asking U.S. senators to boost rural health program funding by $43 million next year. The group said in a May 4 letter to Senate lawmakers that the programs support ...

Accurate patient matching across the care continuum is essential for quality and safety. It's also key to driving down healthcare costs by reducing the ordering of duplicative medical tests. But ...

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian Health, a leading provider of revenue cycle management products that include claims management, payer contract management and patient collections, today ...

LAS VEGAS – After more than 20 years of working toward the creation of a national patient identifier, Tom Leary, senior vice president of Government Relations for HIMSS, is very optimistic about the ...

With a goal of better matching the right patients to all the right medical records, federal regulators have issued new draft technical specifications for standardizing how patients' physical addresses ...

In a study of more than 31,000 adults, an EHR-integrated patient-facing tool significantly improved identification of ...