Secure patient ID is key to curbing medical identity theft and protecting electronic record
The health care industry is in the process of switching from paper to electronic medical records. President Obama set aside more than $19 billion for health care providers to deploy the electronic records in order to streamline health information. But with the transition there are concerns about linking the correct electronic record to the correct patient.
Linking to the wrong record can lead to misdiagnosis and medical complications. According to the independent health care ratings organization HealthGrades, more than 195,000 deaths occur annually in the United States because of medical errors. Almost 60% of these deaths were attributable to a failure to correctly identify the patient, according to a Smart Card Alliance white paper.
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195,000 individuals die each year for medical errors....IF 390 747s crashed each year with 500 on board, SOMETHING WOULD BE DONE....The primary issues is to make sure "the person is who he/she says they are" and access to critical medical information my StorCard, www.storcard.com , can enable this and carry the entire medical history of the patient, fully encrypted.....
The existing smartcard providers are PURPOSELY limiting capacity because as capacity goes up to store more information, they MUST change the readers and they don't want to do that....this is a CRIME
Lets fix this problem..
Finis Conner Conner Investments, LLC fconner@gmail.com
Speaking of linking erroneous data it would behoove Health Grades to remove the dead doctors from their referral listings and the insurance they honor, one example of an MD that has been deceased for almost 7 years still in their system and skews numbers I would think. Other sites may use the same data base, not sure but 8 other doctor rating/referral sites show the same.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/09/healthgrades-and-other-md-rating-and.html
A Master Patient Index (MPI) or patient registry helps solve patient identity problems by matching and linking records across disparate systems. The technology has been tested extensively in the NHIN trials and is in use across major healthcare providers, Canada, many regional HIEs, the national ePresribing network, pharmacies, payers and more. A standards-based solution that integrates with new, legacy and specialty applications is proven to be critical at the foundation of any EHR or HIE initiative. IBM Initiate delivers accurate, proven and scalable patient and provider registry technology. To learn more about how Brooklyn Health Information Exchange is using the technology, visit http://bit.ly/cGLsRi.