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 American Hospital Association and other industry groups have highlighted the benefits of unique patient identifiers to facilitate data exchange and help providers match transmitted information to ...

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 ...

With big changes happening in healthcare – and more and more organizations adopting the Triple Aim approach (improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations, and reducing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is asking Congress to study patient identification issues, hinting at the need for another look at the controversial national patient ...

The House of Representatives today approved the bipartisan Foster-Kelly Amendment as a part of the six-bill FY2021 minibus package that includes the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which also passed ...

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 ...

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 ...