Efforts to establish a national patient identifier hit another major snag as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, fights to prevent federal funding for a unique patient identifier. Paul, who is a physician, said in ...

Citing the potential to minimize misidentification and medical errors, health informatics leaders from England, Scotland and the United States are calling on Congress to lift a 20-year ban on using ...

The CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Russ Branzell criticized Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s introduction of a bill that would repeal a national patient identifier. Mr.

The House of Representatives today approved the bipartisan Foster-Kelly Amendment as a part of the six-bill FY2021 minibus package that includes the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which also passed ...

HHS has been banned from using a patient identifier but several organizations, including national payers, providers, and prescription drug networks, want this reversed. Probabilistic matching or a ...

From an interoperability perspective, identifying patients so their clinical records across multiple care providers can be collated in a comprehensive and complete care record is an important but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Technology providers are optimistic that, after close to 20 years, they may be gaining ground on efforts to remove a ban on the use of federal funds to adopt a nationwide unique patient identifier.

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian Health, a leading provider of revenue cycle management products that include claims management, payer contract management and patient collections, today ...

Healthcare information management leaders headed to Capitol Hill on July 22 to ask Congress to end the ban on the use of federal funds to create a nationwide unique patient identifier. The American ...

As the healthcare community is becoming increasingly digitized, it faces some major challenges, including the fact that sometimes a provider may be treating one patient while looking at another’s ...