Becker's Healthcare June 17, 2021
The Office of the National Coordinator is partnering with industry experts to draft policies standardizing addresses in EHRs to promote patient matching.
Standardizing patient addresses and improving patient matching will support safety, interoperability, privacy and security, decreased costs, and more, according to a June 16 news release.
The push to standardize address comes after studies, such as the 2019 study conducted by researchers at Bloomington-based Indiana...