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 ...

CHIME revealed that it is suspending its National Patient ID Challenge. After two years of work, the CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust put the global competition aimed at incentivizing innovators to ...

Mix-ups in patient identification are a fairly frequent occurrence that can cause real harm to patients. These events are highly preventable with strategies. Mix-ups in patient identification are a ...

Offering a novel answer to a complex security challenge, Imprivata has introduced PatientSecure, a patient identification tool that uses palm vein biometrics to link patients with their EHRs. [See ...

Q: What strategies can be used to ensure the correct identification of patients in a hospital's medication-use process? At our institution, members of the medical center leadership meet monthly as ...

Hospitals across the country are exploring ways to reduce patient identification errors — a problem that poses serious risk to patient safety, undermines patient satisfaction and leads to revenue loss ...

Federal regulators are one step closer to issuing guidance on best practices for how healthcare organizations should authenticate the identities of patients when they want to view, download or ...

A few months ago I was stricken with the flu. If you managed to avoid contracting the flu this year, congratulations, because you certainly dodged a bullet. Although I usually take the old school ...