Patient ID Now is a coalition of more than 40 healthcare organizations — including five health systems — that are calling on the federal government to create and implement a national strategy around patient identification that protects patient safety and privacy.
The coalition was founded by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare and other leading healthcare organizations, including the American College of Surgeons and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
The vaccine rollout has highlighted the need to address patient misidentification and increase interoperability. Since the rollout began, coalition members have received reports of vaccination registration errors duplicating records within a single system, costing health systems more than $12,000 per day to rectify these errors, according to an April 26 news release shared with Becker's.
Here are the five hospitals that are part of the coalition:
- Intermountain Healthcare
- Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.)
- Park View Health (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
- Nemours Children's Health System (Melbourne, Fla.)
- Ochsner Health System (New Orleans)