This content is sponsored by Imprivata. Patient identification errors jeopardize patient safety and result in costly and long-lasting ramifications for providers. The Joint Commission lists improving ...

FT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - With the start of a New Year, many people are talking about New Year resolutions and while few people include resolutions related to prevention of identity theft to their list, ...

On average, clinicians spend 28.2 minutes per shift searching for correct patient records, according to an Imprivata-sponsored Ponemon Institute survey of 503 healthcare executives and providers. In a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on many areas of our health care and public health system and laid bare existing problems that are exacerbated during this crisis. One such area that must be ...

The Joint Commission released a new advisory covering how providers can ensure they collect accurate patient identification. 1. An active conformation process can help match documentation with the ...

Bernard McDonnell, DO, a retired physician and current surveyor for Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, previously identified “20 Questions Surgery Centers Should Ask to Ensure an Acceptable ...

CoxHealth is introducing new biometric technology to enhance patient safety and security — a palm reader, of sorts. Imprivata PatientSecure — a system that ties each patient’s palm vein pattern to his ...

Duplicate and fragmented shared patient records are putting patient safety at risk and negatively affecting providers' bottom lines, costing the average hospital $1.5 million per year, finds a new ...

In a case that underscores the importance of one of the most basic patient safety requirements--correct patient identification--a male car crash victim allegedly was misidentified as a female cancer ...

Healthcare IT security specialist Imprivata is partnering with patient matching company Verato to use biometrics for improving patient identity management. The arrangement will see Imprivata link its ...

Hospitals spend millions of dollars and countless hours resolving patient record matching issues due to lack of interoperability — money and time that could be saved by using enterprise master patient ...

Understand the principles of immunohematology in order to learn the principles involved in the performance of compatibility testing and associated applications including: the importance of the ...