Patient ID Standard Needed To Solve Telehealth Records Confusion, Advocates Say

A group of health data professionals urged the federal government to drop its ban on using federal dollars to create a national standard for patient identification, saying telemedicine adoption has created a greater need for standardized records. In a webinar hosted Wednesday (May 11) by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, speakers said the lack of a standard system for patient ID puts people at risk of receiving treatment based on incomplete or wrong information. Accidental creation of duplicate...