McKnight's July 22, 2019
Technology providers are optimistic that, after close to 20 years, they may be gaining ground on efforts to remove a ban on the use of federal funds to adopt a nationwide unique patient identifier.
Health information management experts gained momentum when the House of Representatives recently repealed the ban as part of its FY2020 Labor, HHS and Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bills.
On Monday, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) held a Congressional briefing to garner Senate support.
For years, AHIMA and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) have pushed officials to allow private stakeholders to work with HHS on a possible patient ID solution.
“There’s tremendous potential,” AHIMA Vice President of Policy and Government...
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