Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

Hospitals are beginning to use biometric systems to prevent errors in identifying patients, The Wall Street Journal reports. Correctly matching patients with their records has become more challenging ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Imprivata’s 2016 National Patient Misidentification Report found patient identification errors are a major drain on money and time. The report surveyed 502 top-level healthcare executives and ...

Patient identification errors ranked second on the ECRI Institute's 2016 list of top 10 patient safety concerns. And a report published earlier this year in the Journal of AHIMA revealed that 57 ...

A newly released framework calls on the federal government to create and implement a national strategy around patient identification that protects patient safety and privacy. A new framework released ...

ATLANTA and PLANO, Texas, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis Risk Solutions has collaborated with QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, to improve patient matching for QuadraMed's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Putting children's photos in their electronic hospital charts could help reduce one type of medical error, a study published Monday suggests. Policymakers have been pushing ...

Including photos of patients' faces with their X-ray images led to a fivefold decrease in patient-identification errors, according to a new study. Researchers asked 10 radiologists to look at 20 pairs ...

As the industry advances its services outside the four walls of the provider, a shift in digital care interactions will require a robust infrastructure to facilitate secure, real-time data sharing and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CrossChx, the only solution to global patient identification, today announced it has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by new investor Khosla Ventures and ...