Hospitals across the country are exploring ways to reduce patient identification errors — a problem that poses serious risk to patient safety, undermines patient satisfaction and leads to revenue loss ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: What strategies can be used to ensure the correct identification of patients in a hospital's medication-use process? At our institution, members of the medical center leadership meet monthly as ...

Patient misidentification is a pressing issue we can't ignore. Support the MATCH IT Act to improve patient matching in healthcare. Take action today: https://ahima ...

Congressmen Bill Foster, D-Ill. (left) and Mike Kelly, R-Penn, sponsored the measure that would lift the ban. For the second year in a row, the House of Representatives has voted to lift the ban on ...

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 ...

Mix-ups in patient identification are a fairly frequent occurrence that can cause real harm to patients. These events are highly preventable with strategies. Mix-ups in patient identification are a ...

Offering a novel answer to a complex security challenge, Imprivata has introduced PatientSecure, a patient identification tool that uses palm vein biometrics to link patients with their EHRs. [See ...