WASHINGTON -- With all the fuss about the many healthcare items included in the omnibus fiscal year 2023 spending bill passed by Congress in December, little notice was taken of one thing that didn't ...

The American Hospital Association and other industry groups have highlighted the benefits of unique patient identifiers to facilitate data exchange and help providers match transmitted information to ...

Two health IT industry groups are pressing the Senate to follow the House’s lead and approve legislation to lift the ban on the Department of Health and Human Services funding the development and ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted 246 to 178 to approve the Foster-Kelly Amendment to HR 2740, which overturns the longtime ban on federal funding for a national patient identifier. This is ...

Accurate linking of an individual's medical records from disparate sources within and between health systems, known as patient matching, plays a critical role in patient safety and quality of care, ...

When a patient walks into a hospital, there’s no guarantee that patient’s medical records will be accessible to providers, or that the medical records are indeed the correct ones for that particular ...