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 ...

Free medical record access and creating unique patient identifiers are some of the proposed ideas one representative is trying to pass in order to give patients easier access to their medical records, ...

Biometric identification may be the most promising approach to patient matching, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts analysis of patient perspectives. Pew worked with Public Opinion Strategies and ...

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 ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT covered a lot of ground during this week's meeting on the agency's patient data matching initiative announced in September. Speakers from ONC ...

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 ...