Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Patient identification failures continue to threaten patient safety in hospitals, and the issue partly stems from the growing complexity of healthcare. The ECRI Institute conducted a deep dive into ...

ATLANTA and PLANO, Texas, Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis Risk Solutions has collaborated with QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, to improve patient matching for QuadraMed's ...

Patient ID Now, a coalition of more than 40 healthcare organizations, released a framework this week aimed at creating a national strategy around patient identification that protects individual safety ...

A newly released framework calls on the federal government to create and implement a national strategy around patient identification that protects patient safety and privacy. A new framework released ...

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, today announced a new partnership with Just Associates, a nationally recognized leader in patient matching and health ...

We conducted a two-phase evaluation. First, we assessed LLMs (GPT o4-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro) on 1,000 synthetic clinical hematology/oncology vignettes with ...

Every fertility clinic should have clearly documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) covering every stage of IVF ...