| Can Unique Identifiers Help Improve Medical Record Quality? |
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| Written by The Buzz | |||
| Tuesday, 07 June 2011 12:10 | |||
Western Health Information Network has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio for a pilot project to determine if unique identifiers help improve the quality of medical records and if those same identifiers can help patients have more control over their information, according to Healthcare IT News. | |||
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About the Author: Jeff Merron is a full-time freelance editor, journalist, and copywriter who has written for the New York Times Magazine, ESPN.com, Slate, Byte Magazine, Macworld, Consumers Digest, and many other national publications. He's also a regular contributor to IT Business Insider and 108, a baseball magazine. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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