The House of Representatives today approved the bipartisan Foster-Kelly Amendment as a part of the six-bill FY2021 minibus package that includes the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which also passed ...

The health IT world is stumping for a unique patient identifier for every U.S. citizen following signs from Congress that it's open to the idea. UPIs are distinct numbers, codes or data comparable to ...

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 ...

Providers and health IT groups kept up lobbying for removal of the congressional ban on funding creation of a unique patient identifier at an Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT event 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 ...

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 ...

Jane Doe receives Joan Doe’s cataract lens implantation. One elderly Cantonese-speaking woman admitted to a hospital for a broken hip lies in pain overnight after being misidentified as her roommate, ...

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 ...

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 ...