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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals’ methods for gathering patient information remain largely imprecise, which can lead to costly, long-lasting ramifications on hospital finances downstream. Many hospitals largely rely on ...

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 ...

The U.S. Senate has removed language prohibiting innovation around national patient identification from its most recent appropriations bill. Health industry stakeholders are applauding the move – and ...

In the absence of a government-endorsed national patient identifier in the U.S., a new initiative aims to create a standards-based nationwide patient credential and matching ecosystem to ultimately ...

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 ...

With digital transformation efforts in healthcare being front and center, healthcare teams are focusing on how to further improve the consumer experience and connect digital touchpoints in a ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

Dr. Samuel Nordberg discusses methods for identifying patients in need of an alternative therapy for TRD at the health system level. Steve Levine, MD: Dr Nordberg, thinking about your health system as ...

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