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 ...

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 ...

Geisinger-Community Medical Center (G-CMC), in Scranton, Pa., is using disposable CenTrak wristband tags to provide patient location information to patients’ families and care providers, as well as to ...

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 ...

Eighteen diabetic patients showed up at the recent Atlanta Diabetes Expo wearing Verichip’s VeriMed Patient Identification System in a demonstration designed to prove how the RFID-based system helps ...

As digitization of the healthcare system increases, issues around data exchange and medical records exchange make patient identification more challenging than ever. In the absence of a unique patient ...

Hospitals’ methods for gathering patient information remain largely imprecise, which can lead to costly, long-lasting ramifications on hospital finances downstream. Many hospitals largely rely on ...

Yes—in fact, one finalist for our 2010 RFID Journal Award for the most innovative use of RFID is The Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center, at the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, which ...

Experts convened by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology clashed over the role a national patient identifier could play in improving patient-matching among ...

The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, an ECRI Institute collaborative, announced at HIMSS17 its second set of Safe Practice Recommendations aimed at reducing patient misidentification. The ...

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imprivata ® (NYSE: IMPR), the healthcare IT security company, today announced that University of Utah Health Care will implement Imprivata PatientSecure, the ...

Author: Dr. Sean Kelly, MD, Chief Medical Officer and VP Customer Strategy, Healthcare at Imprivata and Attending physician, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, ...