By Ken Kleinberg – The digital transformation is revolutionizing patient care. What’s needed are improved tools to help make that happen. 2022 is a new opportunity for the healthcare industry to focus on building up the infrastructure needed.
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By Daniel Cidon – On June 12, the nation’s longtime ban on a universal patient identifier was overturned in a landmark decision by the House. While the Foster-Kelly Amendment to remove Section 510 still needs approval by the Senate to become law, it nevertheless is…
Health information management leaders told members of Congress that removal of a nearly two-decade ban on the use of federal funds to adopt a nationwide unique patient identifier would allow collaboration between the HHS and the private sector to identify solutions….
By Justin Campbell – The topic of patient identity and patient matching has been around as long as healthcare. And for good reason. Without it, interoperability is inoperable.
By Thomas Grove – Many EHR components were developed as early as 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the federal Meaningful Use incentive program precipitated wide-spread implementation of robust EHRs across healthcare.