Healthcare DIVE June 2, 2020
Dive Brief:
- Providers and health IT groups kept up lobbying for removal of the congressional ban on funding creation of a unique patient identifier at an Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT event on patient matching Monday, noting its importance in providing long-term care amid public health events like the COVID-19 pandemic.
- “We want to see that ban removed and hope we can have that conversation on a national level,” Mark Probst, VP and CIO of health system Intermountain, said at the virtual conference, a sentiment echoed by the chief technology officer at Indiana’s Franciscan Health.
- However, longstanding concerns over establishing a national patient identification system remain, pitting providers, health IT vendors and payers against some lawmakers...
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