Healthcare Innovation July 2, 2020
The coalition is inviting members of Congress and congressional staff, as well as media, to a virtual Hill briefing on July 7
Six healthcare organizations—including the Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare—are forming a national coalition called Patient ID Now, focused on addressing the issue of patient identification by advocating for legislation and regulations.
The founding members of Patient ID Now, along with Intermountain, are the American College of Surgeons, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Inc. (HIMSS), and Premier Healthcare Alliance.
The coalition recently launched a website, PatientIDNow.org, which highlights the group’s principles. Noting that failure to accurately identify patients to their data...
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