The legislator introduces the Match IT Act for the patient agreement

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa) and Rep. Bill Foster (D-IR) have reintroduced the living comparison and transparency in Certified Health IT (Match IT) from 2025, which is co-customer (D-MA).

The Match IT Act, introduced last year, aims to tackle the problem of mis -identification of the patient in the entire health continuum.

The cross -party legislation would create an industry standard definition for the term “patient agreement” to measure the patient agreement rates throughout the health system. In addition, the law improves the standardization of the demographic elements of patients in certified health -IT products in order to ensure patient agreement in different systems.

The mis -identification of the patient within the health system has a significant impact on patient safety and leads to unnecessary costs for patients and providers.

The inability of clinicians to ensure a precise patient agreement with Ehr -data has caused medical errors and, in some cases, caused death. In order to prevent these medical mistakes, doctors often order double tests to ensure that previous results are correct, which adds unnecessary costs. In some studies, the costs for double medical documents and non -matching data for $ 1,950 per patient per inpatient stay are determined.

In addition, after Black Book Research, more than every three claims result from an inaccurate agreement of patient, which cost the average hospital of 2.5 million US dollars and the US health system more than $ 6.7 billion per year.

Patient ID NOW, a coalition of health organizations that has committed to promoting a nationwide strategy to improve patient identification, has approved non -partisan legislation.

The founding members of the coalition include Ahima, the executives of the College of Healthcare Information Management (Chime), Himss and Intermountain Health.

“The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recommends that representatives Mike Kelly and Bill Foster again cite the indictment to protect patient safety and to improve patient overstark,” said Maria Caban Alizondo, PhD, Fahima, Ahima President and CEO in a press.

“The MATCH IT law would reduce the incorrect identification of the patients, improve the privacy and care of the patient and reduce the costs within the patient files associated with non -matching patient files,” added Alizondo. “Ahima is looking forward to the adoption of this critical legislation.”

Hannah Nelson has been reporting news in connection with health information technologies and health data since 2020.