A call for a national patient identifier

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National Alliance for Health Information Technology, December 31, 2007

A voluntary, patient-controlled system of unique identifiers is the only way to ensure acceptable levels of safety and accuracy when exchanging medical information through an electronic national network, according to The National Alliance for Health Information Technology. Led by its Technology Leadership and Policy Committees, the Alliance has concluded that the current statistical process for matching patients to their records based on such attributes as name, address and birth date is too unreliable.

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