"We've seen that anyone on the patient's healthcare team can make an identification error, including physicians, nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists and transporters." About 13 percent of the ...

Incorrect identification can also impact a health system’s bottom line. According to the survey respondents, roughly 35 percent of all denied claims result from inaccurate patient identification ...

Hospitals’ methods for gathering patient information remain largely imprecise, which can lead to costly, long-lasting ramifications on hospital finances downstream. Many hospitals largely rely ...

As a most basic function, better identification of patients undoubtedly would lead to safer health care interactions. A health care professional making decisions about a patient’s care using ...

Medication orders were written in the patient's medical record on triplicate ... the MAR to be at the patient's bedside and patient identification to be verified using two unique patient identifiers.

“One of the first and most important steps in the care delivery process is accurate patient identification. Imprivata PatientSecure gives our facilities an advanced solution to digitally link ...

Morristown Medical Center announced it has partnered with healthcare technology company HT Systems to offer their biometric patient identification solution PatientSecure. Morristown Medical Center ...