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 ...

Patient ID Now, a coalition of more than 40 healthcare organizations, released a framework this week aimed at creating a national strategy around patient identification that protects individual safety ...

Author: Dr. Sean Kelly, MD, Chief Medical Officer and VP Customer Strategy, Healthcare at Imprivata and Attending physician, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, ...

Hospitals’ methods for gathering patient information remain largely imprecise, which can lead to costly, long-lasting ramifications on hospital finances downstream. Many hospitals largely rely on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Senate has removed language prohibiting innovation around national patient identification from its most recent appropriations bill. Health industry stakeholders are applauding the move – and ...

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 ...

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 ...