Nonstandard Patient ID Puts Patient Safety at Risk

The United States does not have a standard patient identification method in health information systems, according to Indranil Ganguly, vice president and chief information officer at Centra State Healthcare System in Freeport, N.J.

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Mr. Ganguly discussed the different aspects of patient identification techniques in health IT at AHIMA’s 2011 Legal EHR Summit on Aug. 15 in Chicago and what challenges hospitals and healthcare systems are having today without a standardized way of identifying patients in their information systems.

Click here to read the full story in Becker’s Hospital Review about patient identification standards.

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