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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Free medical record access and creating unique patient identifiers are some of the proposed ideas one representative is trying to pass in order to give patients easier access to their medical records, ...

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 ...

As the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 drives sweeping changes in care delivery, reimbursement models and reporting requirements, healthcare leaders are scrambling to understand ...

The idea of a national patient identifier has gone nowhere, but a regional health information organization in the Los Angeles area has begun testing a regional patient identification system with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...