Articles Tagged With: identification
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Charting a Better Way Forward in Addressing Diagnostic Errors
Preventing diagnostic errors has proven difficult. Many of these errors are captured through passive reporting, and systems are not in place to help clinicians learn from such errors. Using active surveillance could uncover more errors, bring those to the attention of clinicians, and provide a teaching moment (not a punishment moment) to prevent those errors from repeating. -
Patient attributes examined in provider electronic systems
More than a year ago, the National Association of Healthcare Access Management offered recommendations recorded in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s 2014 Patient Identification and Matching Final Report.