WARNER, BANKS INTRODUCE BILL TO BETTER MATCH A PATIENT TO THEIR HEALTH RECORDS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Mark R. Warner issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act, bipartisan legislation that would improve standardization of patients' demographic data entered into certified health IT products to help decrease patient misidentification and promote interoperability. The bill would also create an anonymous, voluntary system to measure patient match rates across the healthcare ecosystem. The ability to match patients to their health records is critical to health data interoperability, vital to HIPAA Privacy Rule compliance, and would improve patient safety.

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