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FedScoop: Senators want to improve electronic health record matching with USPS tool

“A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to improve health care providers’ ability to match patient records and aid coronavirus response efforts.”

“The legislation would make the U.S. Postal Service‘s address formatting tool available to hospitals and testing laboratories for their IT systems.”

“Online retailers already use the tool, which could result in tens of thousands of additional electronic health record matches daily, according to researchers with the American Medical Informatics Association…” Read the full article here.

Source: Senators want to improve electronic health record matching with USPS tool – By Dave Nyczepir, August 11, 2020. FedScoop.

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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