Becker's Healthcare January 7, 2022
Katie Adams

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Jan. 7 issued Version 1.0 of Project US@, its healthcare specification for representing patient addresses to improve patient matching.

Four things to know:

  1. Standardizing patient addresses and improving patient matching will support safety, interoperability, decreased costs, privacy and security, according to a news release issued by the agency.
  2. The effort came after studies, such as the 2019 study conducted by researchers at Bloomington-based Indiana University, concluded that using the U.S. Postal Service’s address...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Technology
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