Comments on: A National Patient Identifier: Should You Care? https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: Salman Rashid https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/#comment-947664 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:37:26 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=96485#comment-947664 Well, yes, everyone should care, given the scale of patient misidentification happening in the US healthcare system. However, looks like that unique patient identifier won’t be created any time soon (not even in 2020).
Leading healthcare providers have instead deployed innovative solutions like touchless biometric patient identification platforms such as RightPatient. Head over to the link and see how it works – it’s worth a shot.

]]> By: William Palmer MD https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/#comment-864938 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:37:29 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=96485#comment-864938 Adrian, Take a look at “Certify reproducibility with confidential data” by Christophe Perignon, et al, in Science 12 July Vol 365, issue 6449, 2019.

It is a paper showing how researchers can trust journal articles a little more. There may be some applicable points in here that you can use.

]]> By: Bobby Gladd https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/#comment-864919 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:13:32 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=96485#comment-864919 “…All told, we are barreling toward a future where every ritual of public life carries implicit consent to be surveilled: obtaining a license, driving a car, shopping in the mall, and even walking across a college campus or city block all open one up to tracking and database matching of some kind. Opting out would mean nonparticipation in social life—a consequence much more dire than the invasion of privacy. When participating in daily life means being searched, law enforcement ceases to presume that the public is innocent.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/07/three-states-granted-ice-access-dmv-photos/593509/

]]> By: Bobby Gladd https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/#comment-864918 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:25:49 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=96485#comment-864918 In reply to Adrian Gropper, MD.

Thanks. I’m sure you’re right.

]]> By: Adrian Gropper, MD https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/#comment-864914 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:50:21 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=96485#comment-864914 In reply to Bobby Gladd.

A biometric ID would make the problem much worse to the extent it further removes consent and it has to be used in-person. This is not a problem for CLEAR because consent is implied when you use that lane at the airport and, by definition, you are in-person. Technology can read your iris from 30 feet away. In the wild, this would become surveillance on a massive scale. Biometric IDs also have major security problems if compromised and the methods tend to be proprietary which limits interoperability.

India’s Adhaaar program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar is an established biometric ID on a national scale. Even now that it’s in place, the path to applying it to health records has not been clear.

]]> By: Bobby Gladd https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/07/09/a-national-patient-identifier-should-you-care/#comment-864912 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:43:45 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=96485#comment-864912 What if an inexpensive biometric ID becomes available (e.g., retinal, like my CLEAR scan, or something genetic)?

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