The Western Health Information Network has received a grant for a demonstration project that would test the effectiveness of patient IDs, according to a Healthcare IT News report. The grant was ...

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has abandoned its National Patient ID Challenge and plans to redirect its efforts into leading a patient identification task force.

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 Western Health Information Network (WHIN) has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio for a pilot project to test how unique patient identifiers can increase ...

Continuously advancing information technology enables providers to share a patient’s medical data across the continuum of care. However, digitally sharing sensitive health information raises the risk ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Previous studies in the United States have been limited to individual centers or infections, or to Medicare ...

Advocates of unique IDs to match patients to their health records may be close to lifting a decadeslong congressional ban on using federal funds to develop the system. The effort, long mired in ...

India's National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed that all medical colleges must generate and issue patient IDs to all ...