Becker's Healthcare February 16, 2024
Giles Bruce

U.S. lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation Feb. 16 to better match patients with their EHRs.

U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Bill Foster, PhD, D-Ill., sponsored the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT, or MATCH IT, Act of 2024.

“Patient matching errors have led to unnecessary expenses, medical mistakes, and even patient deaths,” Mr. Kelly said in a Feb. 16 news release. “This bipartisan legislation works to improve interoperability between healthcare systems and decrease these fixable matching errors, all while protecting patient privacy.”

The legislation aims to improve the standardization of patients’ demographics inputted into certified health IT products and form an anonymous,...

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Topics: Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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