It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT covered a lot of ground during this week's meeting on the agency's patient data matching initiative announced in September. Speakers from ONC ...

Jane Doe receives Joan Doe’s cataract lens implantation. One elderly Cantonese-speaking woman admitted to a hospital for a broken hip lies in pain overnight after being misidentified as her roommate, ...

Does an identity have to be unique? I think we’ll get little argument if we claim that, within a given context, an identity (that is, some distinguishable object) must have a unique identifier.

Providers and health IT groups kept up lobbying for removal of the congressional ban on funding creation of a unique patient identifier at an Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT event on ...