On July 31, 2020, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a ban on the use of federal funding for the development of a universal patient identifier (UPI) for every individual in the United ...
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 ...
It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...
Your medical records probably bear different numbers — one for your primary care physician and his or her medical group, one for each hospital you’ve been treated in, different ones for different ...
Experts convened by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology clashed over the role a national patient identifier could play in improving patient-matching among ...