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 ...
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 ...
Despite gaining support in the U.S. House of Representatives, industry efforts to establish a unique patient identifier in U.S. healthcare—long advocated by many health IT leaders—hit another ...
The Joint Commission launched the Speak Up: Right ID, Right Care campaign Friday to educate patients on the importance of correct identification in healthcare environments. Proper patient ...
It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...
A California hospital misidentified a patient and harvested his organs, though he had never agreed to donate them. A Rhode Island hospital misidentified a suspect police brought to its emergency room ...
Hospitals spend millions of dollars and countless hours resolving patient record matching issues due to lack of interoperability — money and time that could be saved by using enterprise master patient ...
As the national discussion about unique patient identifiers moves forward, one company, Imprivata, has introduced a new solution that scans the veins in a person’s palm to identify the person and link ...
The Vice Dean for Medical and Health Professions Education Shares a Vision for Patient-Centered Care
Dr, Mary Klotman, dean of the School of Medicine, has a conversation with Dr. Aditee Narayan, the school’s new vice dean for ...
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