Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

ATLANTA and PLANO, Texas, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis Risk Solutions has collaborated with QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, to improve patient matching for QuadraMed's ...

Medical facilities have little room for error when it comes to identifying patients. They must be identified with 100% accuracy to ensure healthcare teams provide 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 ...

Patient identification failures continue to threaten patient safety in hospitals, and the issue partly stems from the growing complexity of healthcare. The ECRI Institute conducted a deep dive into ...

Imprivata’s 2016 National Patient Misidentification Report found patient identification errors are a major drain on money and time. The report surveyed 502 top-level healthcare executives and ...

A newly released framework calls on the federal government to create and implement a national strategy around patient identification that protects patient safety and privacy. A new framework released ...

If you’re not a professional actively working in the healthcare industry, you probably don’t realize how important medical records are — or how dangerously unreliable they can be. According to Black ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on many areas of our health care and public health system and laid bare existing problems that are exacerbated during this crisis. One such area that must be ...

As the industry advances its services outside the four walls of the provider, a shift in digital care interactions will require a robust infrastructure to facilitate secure, real-time data sharing and ...

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.