The ONC has announced plans to develop the unified specification for the use of addresses in healthcare. The new effort, Project US@, whose goal is to issue a...
National Patient ID
The following is a guest article by Alvin Loh, senior director of product at Redox. No nation on earth has a more illustrious record of space exploration than...
Inching Closer to a National Patient Identifier – House Passes Removal of Ban on National Patient ID
Little by little, we’re working towards a National Patient Identifier. For those not familiar with the topic, the US government in a section of the...
For the 16th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about whether we’re “buying” or “selling” various...
The big news coming out of Washington yesterday was the house’s vote to strike down the long time ban on federal funding for a national patient...
Obviously, managing and protecting patients’ personal health information is very important already. But with high-profile incidents highlighting questionable...
In that random scrap heap I refer to as my memory, I’ve compiled several items not worthy of a full post, but that keep nagging me for a mention. Here are the...