Instructions:
This discussion will be completed in two parts and will give you an opportunity to reflect upon this week’s content and to interact with your classmates.
- Part 1 – Post your initial response to the discussion questions by Thursday at 11:59 pm
- Part 2 – Post substantive feedback to two (2) classmates by Sunday at 11:59 pm
Investigate current resources on patient identification, matching, and identifiers. Search in Google or your favored browser for these terms. Choose the Tools option in the browser to limit your search results to the past year. Here is one such search results: to an external site.
- Describe existing patient identification problems
- Describe some methods that health systems use to match patients correctly
- Describe proposals to address the problem
- Describe the environment for a universal patient ID solution
Complete the reading in advance of composing your original thread. Demonstrate your understanding of the reading in your post. Your response post should contribute additional, new information to the discussion. All the expected components on the Discussion Rubric should be present in your discussion posts.
