Modern Healthcare October 3, 2018
As patient identification and matching errors continue to put patient safety at risk, industry groups say healthcare organizations should renew their focus on the problem and consider new ways to solve it.
A heavier reliance on patients, perhaps by asking them to collect health information on their smartphones (as Apple already enables for patients of certain health systems) could be one solution, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts, which on Tuesday was one of two groups that released a report on patient matching and patient ID.
The industry needs to take certain steps first, according to Pew, which offered suggestions based on patient focus groups and interviews with healthcare executives. Those include assigning a unique identifier to every patient. But...
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