While a national patient identifier could help ease patient-matching woes among providers, it's not the ultimate solution, experts shared during the 2020 annual meeting of HHS' Office of the National ...
Health informatics leaders say it’s time for Congress to lift its ban on a unique patient identifier
Citing the potential to minimize misidentification and medical errors, health informatics leaders from England, Scotland and the United States are calling on Congress to lift a 20-year ban on using ...
The healthcare industry continues to be plagued by patient identification and matching errors, some of which cause injury and death. The latest warning comes from the nonprofit ECRI Institute, which ...
WASHINGTON -- With all the fuss about the many healthcare items included in the omnibus fiscal year 2023 spending bill passed by Congress in December, little notice was taken of one thing that didn't ...
The idea of unique patient identifiers (UPIs) could very well be reality in the not-so-distant future. Despite the current standstill at the federal level, other efforts to implement UPIs are very ...
Experts convened by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology clashed over the role a national patient identifier could play in improving patient-matching among ...
Misidentifying patients presents a potentially catastrophic situation for any healthcare organization, opening the door to medical errors, identity theft and payment fraud. Patient misidentification ...
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