Patient Identity and Patient Record Matching

Health Care Blog September 11, 2020
Adrian Gropper, MD and Deborah C. Peel, MD

Thank you, ONC for the opportunity you gave me to speak in June. Also, thank you for the format of your August meeting where the Zoom chat feature offered a wonderful venue for an inclusive commentary and discussion as the talks were happening. Beats lining up at the microphone any day.

Here is a brief recap of my suggestions, in no particular order:

• Patient identity is not different from human identity. Working on healthcare-specific solutions is not only expensive, but also ineffective. As some of your speakers made clear, the economic value of patient ID requires access to social determinants of health, non-HIPAA wearables, social relationships, assisted living, and economic correlates. Access to these will not be covered by...

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