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Patient Identification in Healthcare with Nancy Farrington, CHAM, EMPI Administrator HIM, Main Line Health System
Patient identifications role in patient safety strategies Real risks of patient misidentification What can be done to prevent patient misidentification?
Patient Identification issues across health information exchanges
Joint Commission standard for 2 patient identifiers only applies to in-house patients (small subset of patient population), not at the point of registration Healthcare Information & Management Systems (HIMSS) working on developing positive patient ID documentation Congress is investigating the possibility of creating a uniform patient identification card among other options Clear lack of patient identification standards hampering industry Accurate patient identification is essential in patient safety
*(If you can check on previous variations of peoples names, you will have a higher patient match rate)
Low Performers Had higher rate of patient ID errors and problems found by nursing and clinical departments (more expensive to resolve patient misidentification)
What are Main Issues for Patient Identification Across Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)?
Information is being exchanged without available contact (conversation) with the patient for confirmation i.e. electronic data exchanges will require more matching data points Size of database increases chances of misidentifying patients and creating duplicate medical records Patient access to data will uncover more identification errors and duplicate medical records
Thank you to Nancy Farrington for lending us her time and knowledge for this podcast!
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