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Unique Patient Identifiers
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Up for debate: HIT and patient privacy
This month's Wall Street Journal's "Big Issues" feature focuses on healthcare, including information technology and privacy of patient data. The debate-style articles feature first-person arguments
VA, DoD will share a single identifier for each patient
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have reached an agreement to assign a single lifetime personal identifier that would follow a service member from enlistment until
It's time to revisit biometrics for patient ID, security
Last week in this space, I wrote about the importance of a master patient index or other form of reliable patient identifier as key to making health information exchange work. Wouldn't you know,
Report: U.S. could learn health IT lessons from Europe
While the U.S. scrambles to meet the goal of two consecutive administrations delivering a national, interoperable web of electronic health records networks by 2014, other countries have achieved far
Study: Unique patient identifiers could save $77 billion
Smarter use of existing technologies could save as much, if not more, on healthcare costs for developing new technology, a new RAND study finds. After all, unique patient identifiers (UPIs) already
