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 ...

With big changes happening in healthcare – and more and more organizations adopting the Triple Aim approach (improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations, and reducing the ...

The complicated and elusive issue of patient matching is about to get a boost with the Government Accountability Office, which is poised to launch a study of the topic and offer recommendations.

While a national patient identifier could help ease patient-matching woes among providers, it's not the ultimate solution, experts shared during the 2020 annual meeting of HHS' Office of the National ...

On July 31, 2020, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a ban on the use of federal funding for the development of a universal patient identifier (UPI) for every individual in the United ...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has a petition going to remove a 16-year federal budget ban that prevents HHS from developing unique patient identifiers. Although the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...