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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medical facilities have little room for error when it comes to identifying patients. They must be identified with 100% accuracy to ensure healthcare teams provide the ...

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 ...

Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Patient ID Now, a coalition of more than 40 healthcare organizations, released a framework this week aimed at creating a national strategy around patient identification that protects individual safety ...

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 ...

Congress made the commitment to bring the U.S. health system into the modern computing age with the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009.

Author: Dr. Sean Kelly, MD, Chief Medical Officer and VP Customer Strategy, Healthcare at Imprivata and Attending physician, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, ...

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 ...

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 ...