Washington Debrief: Senate Panel Examines HIE, Patient ID Challenges Highlighted

Healthcare Informatics: Among the issues highlighted was the challenge of confidently identifying patients with their data. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cited a 2012 CHIME study of 128 healthcare CIOs and other senior healthcare leaders in which nearly one-fifth indicated that their hospital had experienced an adverse event during the course of the year due to a patient information mismatch.  The Senator spoke to the dangers of patient mismatches and called on witnesses to articulate what Congress and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) can do to solve this patient safety issue.

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