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 ...

On July 31, 2020, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a ban on the use of federal funding for the development of a universal patient identifier (UPI) for every individual in the United ...

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 ...

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 ...

b.well Connected Health, which consolidates an individual's data on its platform across providers, pharmacies, insurers and devices, announced a partnership with Mastercard Thursday to assist with ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEQSTER PDM Inc. (“SEQSTER”), the leading patient-centric healthcare technology company, and Antidote Technologies (“Antidote”), a digital health company that focuses on ...

Healthcare: try to name a sector in which the importance of process excellence is higher. You’ll struggle. Every decision, every action, every allocation of personnel or resources has a direct impact ...

Imprivata, a leading provider of access management solutions for healthcare and other mission-critical industries, today announced that Imprivata Patient Access is now a full offering available in ...