National Patient Identifier News and Resources for Healthcare

ONC Focuses on Data Governance with Patient Matching Framework

December 20, 2017 - The Office of the National Coordinator, in conjunction with CMMI institute, has released a new patient identification and patient matching framework to help ensure accurate care across an increasingly interoperable healthcare continuum. The Patient Demographic Data Quality (PDDQ) toolkit aims to address a serious and pervasive problem in health...

Patient Matching, Health IT Standards Critical for Interoperability

August 28, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Trustworthy interoperability of accurate, meaningful, and timely health data must be predicated upon reliable patient matching techniques and widely shared health IT standard, states the Pew Charitable...

Data Integrity Strategies for Patient Matching, Identification

May 30, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Patient matching errors are an insidious but all-too-common threat to patient safety in the healthcare setting. While providers have generally embraced the idea that a patient’s electronic record should follow her from the...

Top Health IT Groups Ask Congress for Patient Identification Tools

October 06, 2016 by Jennifer Bresnick

Nearly two dozen healthcare providers, professional groups, and interoperability organizations are urging Congress to remove language that prevents the development of improved patient identification...

ECRI: “Most If Not All” Patient Identification Errors Preventable

September 28, 2016 by Nathan Boroyan

The majority of patient identification errors, including wrong-patient errors, may be preventable with a few key changes to provider processes, according to a new report from the ECRI Institute’s...

Preventing Big Data Pain Points During a Healthcare Encounter

July 25, 2016 by Jennifer Bresnick

When it comes to the healthcare space, the term “big data” may seem needlessly redundant. After all, each and every patient generates a staggering amount of information each second they’re in the clinical...

Data Governance Can Help Improve Patient Matching Issues

April 19, 2016 by Sara Heath

Better data governance is necessary to reduce duplicate patient records and improve the process for patient matching, according to a new study published in Perspectives in Health Information Management,...