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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patient misidentification is a growing problem in the U.S., with dangerous and even fatal consequences. Traditional identification methods, such as using patient names and dates of birth, are prone to ...

Accurate patient matching across the care continuum is essential for quality and safety. It's also key to driving down healthcare costs by reducing the ordering of duplicative medical tests. But ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on many areas of our health care and public health system and laid bare existing problems that are exacerbated during this crisis. One such area that must be ...

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian Health, a leading provider of revenue cycle management products that include claims management, payer contract management and patient collections, today ...

In a study of more than 31,000 adults, an EHR-integrated patient-facing tool significantly improved identification of ...

LAS VEGAS – After more than 20 years of working toward the creation of a national patient identifier, Tom Leary, senior vice president of Government Relations for HIMSS, is very optimistic about the ...

Further interoperability work is necessary to fuel telehealth, care at home, and social determinants of health initiatives, says HIMSS leader Hal Wolf. Last March, the U.S. Department of Health & ...