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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

From an interoperability perspective, identifying patients so their clinical records across multiple care providers can be collated in a comprehensive and complete care record is an important but ...

It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...