ATLANTA, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis ® Risk Solutions has partnered with one of the largest nationwide retail pharmacy chains to provide the LexID® unique patient identifier across ...

When the U.S. House of Representatives voted in August to overturn a ban on using federal funds to establish a national patient identifier — a unique health ID number for every U.S. resident — the ...

NCPDP and Experian Health announced today that every person in the U.S. population, of an estimated 328 million Americans, have been assigned a unique Universal Patient Identifier, powered by Experian ...

A think tank that studies the intersection of data and public policy is asking Congress to adopt unique patient identifiers and improve data collection for the LGBT community. Those were two of the 10 ...

Providers regularly misidentify patients for procedures and other actions, sometimes with deadly consequences, a recent analysis by the ECRI Institute shows. The group reviewed 7,613 wrong-patient ...

Does there need to be a universal patient identifier in the U.S.? Are efforts to promote population health and precision medicine aligned? Those are two of the questions taken up Tuesday evening by ...

The Food and Drug Administration is in discussions with multiple stakeholders to create a universal unique medical device identifier to be stored in electronic health records and linked to patient ...

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From an interoperability perspective, identifying patients so their clinical records across multiple care providers can be collated in a comprehensive and complete care record is an important but ...

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 ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- NCPDP and Experian Health announced today that every person in the U.S. population, of an estimated 328 million Americans, have been assigned a ...