Patient Safety Awareness Week - March 10–16 - is an annual event that brings patient safety into laser focus.

But at Imprivata, ensuring patient safety is a constant. We believe that a critical component of patient safety is positively identifying patients and linking them to their correct medical record. Only then, clinicians can be confident that they are treating patients based on accurate and complete medical histories – in other words, safely.

At this year’s annual HIMSS conference, held last month in Orlando, Florida, we joined more than 45,000 professionals from across the globe to showcase innovation and collaboration in the health IT industry.

At this year’s annual HIMSS conference, held last month in Orlando, Florida, we joined more than 45,000 professionals from across the globe to showcase innovation and collaboration in the health IT industry. 

Technology in healthcare is in a state of flux. It is evolving, changing, and growing, encouraging providers and clinicians to adapt along with it. A number of emerging challenges can often make this transition more complicated than it needs to be, and can leave healthcare organizations struggling to balance security and convenience.

In a recent webinar, we discussed the major challenges that providers and clinicians face in 2019. Here’s a quick recap:

Physician burnout

Joint solution combines biometric and referential patient matching into single architecture to address the full lifecycle of patient identity