MedPage Today January 25, 2023
— Biden administration working on better patient matching instead
WASHINGTON — With all the fuss about the many healthcare items included in the omnibus fiscal year 2023 spending bill passed by Congress in December, little notice was taken of one thing that didn’t change: the federal government still can’t develop a unique patient identifier (UPI).
Many healthcare organizations have been clamoring for a UPI, also known as a universal patient identifier or a national patient identifier, for years. “Without the ability of clinicians to correctly connect a patient with their medical record, lives have been lost and medical errors have needlessly occurred,” dozens of medical organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), and the...
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