Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Medical facilities have little room for error when it comes to identifying patients. They must be identified with 100% accuracy to ensure healthcare teams provide the ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Patient identification failures continue to threaten patient safety in hospitals, and the issue partly stems from the growing complexity of healthcare. The ECRI Institute conducted a deep dive into ...

If you’re not a professional actively working in the healthcare industry, you probably don’t realize how important medical records are — or how dangerously unreliable they can be. According to Black ...

ATLANTA and PLANO, Texas, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis Risk Solutions has collaborated with QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, to improve patient matching for QuadraMed's ...

A newly released framework calls on the federal government to create and implement a national strategy around patient identification that protects patient safety and privacy. A new framework released ...

Author: Dr. Sean Kelly, MD, Chief Medical Officer and VP Customer Strategy, Healthcare at Imprivata and Attending physician, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, ...