When a patient walks into a hospital, there’s no guarantee that patient’s medical records will be accessible to providers, or that the medical records are indeed the correct ones for that particular ...

The American Hospital Association is asking U.S. senators to boost rural health program funding by $43 million next year. The group said in a May 4 letter to Senate lawmakers that the programs support ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Accurate patient matching across the care continuum is essential for quality and safety. It's also key to driving down healthcare costs by reducing the ordering of duplicative medical tests. But ...

Imperfect identity data can impair care quality and patient safety, hinder healthcare AI initiatives, and impact the bottom line. The average cost of repeated medical care because of duplicate records ...

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian Health, a leading provider of revenue cycle management products that include claims management, payer contract management and patient collections, today ...

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 ...

With a goal of better matching the right patients to all the right medical records, federal regulators have issued new draft technical specifications for standardizing how patients' physical addresses ...