Community Hospital Anderson, a part of Indiana’s Community Health Network, believes that positive patient identification is the foundation of accurate, quality care and patient safety.

Healthcare can only be effective if the correct care is provided to the correct patient, using accurate patient information. However, relying on manual identification processes such as demographic searches and querying using Social Security Numbers often results in patient misidentification, which can lead to patient safety errors and financial issues for the hospital.

On July 28, federal legislators introduced HR 3528, The Every Prescription Conveyed Securely Act – bipartisan legislation that would require healthcare providers to prescribe opioids and other medications electronically through a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan.

Proper patient identification is the key to patient safety and effective revenue cycle performance. With the right tools in place to guarantee positive identification, hospitals can reap the full clinical and financial benefits of digital health technology from EHRs and kiosks. Integrating positive patient identification with these systems enables customers to ensure they get patient identification right each and every time.