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 ...
Hybrid approaches allow for clinician input into case finding for care management, but training and monitoring is required to protect against unintentional biases. Objectives: Appropriate selection of ...
LAS VEGAS – After more than 20 years of working toward the creation of a national patient identifier, Tom Leary, senior vice president of Government Relations for HIMSS, is very optimistic about 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 ...
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, ...
As the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 drives sweeping changes in care delivery, reimbursement models and reporting requirements, healthcare leaders are scrambling to understand ...