On average, clinicians spend 28.2 minutes per shift searching for correct patient records, according to an Imprivata-sponsored Ponemon Institute survey of 503 healthcare executives and providers ...

A unique patient identifier number! Used in conjunction, according to this graphic, with biometrics of a patient’s palm to identify unique vein patterns, retrieving color photos of the patient ...

1. Facilities can utilize patient identifiers in the preoperative area before entering the operating room, Christy Bingham, intra-procedural director at Traverse City, Mich.-based Copper Ridge Surgery ...

Overall, the investigators found that 92 percent of handwritten prescriptions either failed to meet ideal practice standards, contained such errors as the absence of at least two patient identifiers, ...

Ensuring the correct patient identification is a prerequisite to safe care, the Joint Commission has made accurate patient identification one of its National Patient Safety goals since 2003 when ...

Using two patient identifiers when providing care, treatment, or services is the safest way to prevent errors in all stages of diagnosis and treatment. UAB ambulatory clinics measure provider and ...

The idea of unique patient identifiers (UPIs) could very well be reality in the not-so-distant future. Despite the current standstill at the federal level, other efforts to implement UPIs are very ...

Now hospitals are using iris and palm-vein scanning to overcome a growing patient-identification problem.

"Wrong-patient" errors are not uncommon and such mistakes may have deadly consequence, according to a | Patient identification errors are not uncommon and such mistakes may be fatal, according to ...

In fact, volunteers perform as many as 8,000 audits monthly. It also stated that volunteers check whether bottles of pills and liquid have at least two patient identifiers.

Two de-identification methods, k-anonymization and adding a "fuzzy factor," significantly reduced the risk of re-identification of patients in a dataset of 5 million patient records from a large ...

The list includes patient identifiers, alarm management and medication safety criteria.