Release of information is complicated. The utmost goal is to meet the patient’s needs, but the ROI specialist must consider HIPAA compliance and other applicable rules and regulations with regard…
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A Realistic Approach to Achieving a 1% Duplicate Record Error Rate
Patient identification and matching (PIM) is vital to delivery of safe and efficient care, and misidentification errors have been a recurring challenge in healthcare, resulting in administrative inefficiencies, serious injuries,…
How Real-Time Data Can Change the Patient Safety Game
Information gleaned from medical devices and retrospective EHR data can improve patient safety, inform clinical decision support, and shape governance strategies
HIM Professionals Play Key Role in Taking Patient Safety Beyond the Clinical Setting
Two decades ago, with its groundbreaking To Err is Human report, the Institute of Medicine sounded an alarm on patient safety that reverberates today, and reminds us of how much…