On average, claim denials linked to inaccurate patient identification or faulty patient information cost $1.2 million annually The Journal of AHIMA article, "Tips for Trusting Identity in the Era of ...

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 ...

Congress made the commitment to bring the U.S. health system into the modern computing age with the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009.

The proximity of two occurrences, the well-publicized Equifax breach and the less well-publicized Experian announcement that it intends to take on the unique patient identifier challenge, should ...

Misidentifying a patient can lead to significant consequences, including reduced clinical productivity, revenue loss and even patient harm. In a webinar sponsored by Imprivata and presented by ...

Mix-ups in patient identification are a fairly frequent occurrence that can cause real harm to patients. These events are highly preventable with strategies. Mix-ups in patient identification are a ...

Hospitals across the country are exploring ways to reduce patient identification errors — a problem that poses serious risk to patient safety, undermines patient satisfaction and leads to revenue loss ...

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 ...

Providers regularly misidentify patients for procedures or other actions, sometimes with deadly consequences, a new analysis by the ECRI Institute shows. The risk of medical record mix-ups is ...

Two women with the same name went in for mammograms on the same day at the same hospital. One of the tests came back with a worrisome finding; the other looked fine. Unfortunately, the women wouldn't ...