The American Hospital Association and other industry groups have highlighted the benefits of unique patient identifiers to facilitate data exchange and help providers match transmitted information to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, an HHS working session met to discuss a long-simmering topic in American health policy: the need for a universal patient-identification strategy. In this episode of HIMSSCast, host ...

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TASCET, Inc., released its “Unique Patient Identifier,” or UPI, solution to the healthcare industry today-- resolving a long, contentious search by providers, patient ...

PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NextGate, a global leader in patient and provider identification, announced today that Radiology and Imaging Specialists (RIS) has selected its ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Women and Infants Center at UAB, ambulatory clinic quality is critically important. We are committed to providing patients and their families with the best care experience possible. That is why ...