A unique patient identifier could help ensure that people with the same name don’t get mixed up, even if they live on the same street or are born on the same day. Although electronic health ...

In their simple linear model, the activity of a single region is equal to the summed contributions of all the other areas, each of which is weighted, since some lines of communication between ...

But an NPI would be better. “A national patient identifier would shortcut that need for an algorithm to establish confidence that have linked two identical patients,” he adds.

The emergency location app divides the world into 10-foot squares, each with a unique three-word identifier that helps first ...