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 ...

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 complicated and elusive issue of patient matching is about to get a boost with the Government Accountability Office, which is poised to launch a study of the topic and offer recommendations.

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 ...

Terry has an appointment with an orthopedist. When she meets with the doctor, she says the history of her problem and her recent MRI can be found in her medical records, all of which should have been ...

Julie Dooling, a director at American Health Information Management Association Congress is considering whether to allow regulators to fund work on developing a national unique patient identifier - an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...