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 ...

A voluntary, patient-controlled system of unique identifiers is the only way to ensure acceptable levels of safety and accuracy when exchanging medical information through an electronic 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 ...

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 ...

May 23, 2022 - A national patient health identifier standard is integral to supporting direct patient care, value-based care, and population health initiatives through enhanced patient matching, ...

The Match IT Act of 2024, now before Congress, would create a federal definition for 'patient match rate' that providers would address as they would a clinical quality measurement A new bill before ...

Constant identity assurance via behavioral signals or biometrics ensures continuous validation of identity instead of relying ...

TASCET created the ‘Unique Patient Identifier’ to protect patients from data breaches. 1. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, Association of Medical Directors of Information ...

Healthcare industry groups have been chewing on the challenge of accurate patient matching for years, with the prospect of patient misidentification presenting questions around safety and security, ...

Healthcare and health IT groups are applauding federal lawmakers' efforts to help establish a unique patient identifier in U.S. healthcare. Many health IT leaders see the investigation and creation of ...

Handling sensitive patient data is a critical responsibility for organizations involved in clinical trials. To meet regulatory requirements, many rely on SDTM mapping—a process that converts raw ...