Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...

The U.S. Senate has removed language prohibiting innovation around national patient identification from its most recent appropriations bill. Health industry stakeholders are applauding the move – and ...

Advocates of unique IDs to match patients to their health records may be close to lifting a decadeslong congressional ban on using federal funds to develop the system. The effort, long mired in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings from a study conducted at one infectious disease clinic suggest that telemedicine consultation for ...

A resolution forbidding the American Medical Association to use Social Security numbers in its internal membership records came up for consideration at this year’s AMA annual meeting. It was an ...

A financial clerk for a Texas dentist has been sentenced to spend more than five years in federal prison for using patients' identification to open credit card accounts and stealing cash payments, ...