I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about the nature of identity. I posited a few weeks ago that every human being who ever lived, or ever will live, has a unique identity based on a ...

Last September, we wrote about FDA’s request for comments on the use of unique identifiers for medical devices. Since then, FDA received almost 90 comments, many of them from industry. A lot of them ...

With big changes happening in healthcare – and more and more organizations adopting the Triple Aim approach (improving the patient experience, improving the health of populations, and reducing the ...

Citing the potential to minimize misidentification and medical errors, health informatics leaders from England, Scotland and the United States are calling on Congress to lift a 20-year ban on using ...

It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has a petition going to remove a 16-year federal budget ban that prevents HHS from developing unique patient identifiers. Although the ...

Does an identity have to be unique? I think we’ll get little argument if we claim that, within a given context, an identity (that is, some distinguishable object) must have a unique identifier.

In 2016, it’s not uncommon for individuals to juggle dozens of social media accounts and provide information ranging from email to home address and phone number with many transactions — some even ...