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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

On July 31, 2020, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a ban on the use of federal funding for the development of a universal patient identifier (UPI) for every individual in the United ...

NYU Langone Medical Center said it is the first hospital in the Northeast to use a biometric infrared scanning system that converts a digital palm image into a unique patient ID. The technology, ...