The US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing on 6/10/2015. The topic was Health Information Exchange: A Path Towards Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care for Patients. This press release from CHIME reports on the need for accurate patient identification. CHIME press release 6/10/2015.
It is time for a new way to link patients to their health records
Very interesting article from the New York Times on the use of Social Security Numbers in healthcare.
CHIME issues Patient ID Challenge
GPII can meet this challenge. We are looking for partner Companies and Healthcare Organizations who would like to participate in the challenge.
One of the "Basic challenges that we face" says Jack Wolf, Montefiore Medical Center's Chief Information Officer "is the lack of a unique patient identifier".
'When you get into population health, tracking these patients is very dependent on being able to uniquely identify that it is the same patient'
Russ Branzell, CEO of CHIME, weighs in
Healthcare IT News reports on Branzell telling the AHIMA convention "There are so many opportunities. There are so many things that we need clarity on in our industry. It's very difficult, whether that be interoperability or clear standards".
