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 ...

Creating a unique patient identification number for every person in the United States would facilitate a reduction in medical errors, simplify the use of electronic medical records, increase overall ...

TASCET created the ‘Unique Patient Identifier’ to protect patients from data breaches. 1. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, Association of Medical Directors of Information ...

The health IT world is stumping for a unique patient identifier for every U.S. citizen following signs from Congress that it's open to the idea. UPIs are distinct numbers, codes or data comparable to ...

Congressmen Bill Foster, D-Ill. (left) and Mike Kelly, R-Penn, sponsored the measure that would lift the ban. For the second year in a row, the House of Representatives has voted to lift the ban on ...

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 ...

Last year, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) found that, on average, 10 percent of a health organization’s patient records are duplicates. Why is this statistic so ...

Providers and health IT groups kept up lobbying for removal of the congressional ban on funding creation of a unique patient identifier at an Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT event on ...