I think we’re all interested to see what kind of funding is going to be made available in the COVID-19 spending package that is happening. Tom Leary, VP...
Tag - Patient Matching
Patient matching problems are persistent across healthcare organizations and continue to pose patient safety risks, according to a new survey addressing these...
As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts...
Wouldn’t it be nice if the advent of EHRs made it more likely that information in medical records was accurate? Sadly, that’s hardly the case. In fact, patient...
The following is a guest blog by Monica Stout from MedicaSoft. At HIMSS18, we spoke about making health data useful to patients with the Delaware Health...
The following is a guest blog post by Wes Rishel in partnership with Verato. Henry Ford famously said, “If I’d asked them what they wanted, they...
Thousands of submissions received from more than 140 teams The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health...
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...
The health care industry loves to complain about patient data. It’s full of errors, which can be equally the fault of patients or staff. And hanging over...
A little bit before HIMSS, Healthcare Scene had the chance to sit down with a panel of experts on patient identification and patient matching, but I...
