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 ...

Universal patient identifiers—unique IDs for every individual in the US—would improve the accuracy, efficiency, and safety of health care. But a ban on the use of federal funding to develop them is ...

Patient identity and matching problems are not new to healthcare. But the COVID-19 pandemic has raised the stakes, healthcare leaders say. The failure to accurately identify patients to their data ...

Despite gaining support in the U.S. House of Representatives, industry efforts to establish a unique patient identifier in U.S. healthcare—long advocated by many health IT leaders—hit another ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Joint Commission released a new advisory covering how providers can ensure they collect accurate patient identification. 1. An active conformation process can help match documentation with the ...

Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, previously identified “20 Questions Surgery Centers Should Ask to Ensure an Acceptable ...

When the U.S. House of Representatives voted in August to overturn a ban on using federal funds to establish a national patient identifier — a unique health ID number for every U.S. resident — the ...