Duplicate Medical Records Impact Patient Safety in Hospitals
Ensuring patient safety is one of the top priorities for any…
Employees Can Compromise Medical Records – How Can Hospitals Protect Patient Data?
As harsh as it may sound, employees getting fired for accessing…
Hospitals Can Improve Revenue Cycle With Positive Patient Identification
The importance of digitization in healthcare delivery is becoming…
Helping the Frontline Fight Against COVID-19
As we all come to grips with a new normal during this war with…
Hospital data breach results in an expensive lawsuit – Is yours next?
Hospital data breaches have been rampant for quite some years…
How RightPatient Benefits Medical Identity Theft and the Healthcare Red Flags Rule
It’s no secret that medical identity theft is on the rise.…
Why The Coronavirus Makes Patient Identification More Critical Than Ever
In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock somewhere, the COVID-19…
Proper Patient Identification Can Help Fight the Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis has been a menace since it started. It spread…
How Do Progressive Hospitals Prevent Medical Identity Theft?
There are many things we need to be concerned about to avoid…
Medical Identity Theft Prevention Enhances Patient Trust
What is one of the crucial things a company needs to ensure so…
Wrong Patient Identification Causes Kidney Transplant Fiasco at a Hospital
Another day, another wrong patient identification. It just goes…
Can Revenue Cycle Improvement Prevent Hospital Closures?
So many hospitals are closing their doors that it is hard to…
2583 hospitals hit with penalties due to readmission reduction program
Medicare hit 2583 health systems with penalties by cutting payments…
Another industry expert in favor of an effective patient identifier
It has been a long, continuous, and never-ending fight for the…
Why should the Senate choose biometrics as a unique patient identifier?
Unique patient identifiers have been talked about several times,…
Why a Unique Patient Identifier is so important in the healthcare industry?
Not a day goes by when we do not hear of patient identification…
Seven strategies ACOs use for better patient outcomes and lower costs
According to recent studies, it is expected that Medicare’s…
Strategies which help ACOs to improve patient outcomes
The individual entities in any Accountable Care Organization…
Unique identifiers will lead to a reduction of patient matching challenges
If you are a follower of this blog, then you will know how huge…
Physician Burnout is a Multi-billion Dollar Problem – How Are You Solving it?
Well, the cat's out of the bag now. EHR (electronic health record)…
Unique patient identifier is what everyone is demanding for patient safety
Patient identification errors are nothing new - everyone in the…
Patient identification errors are the most common EHR generated issues
According to a recent survey, patient identification errors are…
Patient experience in healthcare is vital for both hospitals and patients
Patients are customers of the healthcare industry, and like conventional…
What are health systems doing to improve the patient experience?
Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of competition present in the…
Another one added to the endless list of patient misidentification stories
Another day, another one added to the endless patient misidentification…
Importance of patient identification and EHRs – What you need to know
When it was at its introductory stage, the official representatives…
Healthcare’s most significant issue – Improving patient safety
Whenever medical records do not match with patients and are out…
Patient safety issues occur due to patient misidentifications
When electronic health records (EHRs) were introduced, people…
