Sign-On Letter Re: Patient ID Funding Ban in FY21 Labor HHS Appropriations - House

Letter from several medical organizations to the House Committee on Appropriations urging leaders to reject the inclusion of outdated rider language in the FY 21 Labor-HHS Appropriations bills prohibiting funding to adopt a national unique patient identifier.

Kate McFadyen

patient matching, patient identification, patient safety, privacy, electronic health records, EHRs, COVID-19, testing, public health emergency, pandemic, health information technology, health IT, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:02 PM EDT

Thu, 06/04/2020 - 11:34 AM EDT

3

sign-on_letter_re_patient_id_funding_ban_in_fy21_labor_hhs_appropriations_house_june_2020.pdf

{"Author":"Kate McFadyen","CreationDate":"2020-06-03T12:02:59-04:00","Creator":"Microsoft\u00ae Word for Office 365","Keywords":"patient matching, patient identification, patient safety, privacy, electronic health records, EHRs, COVID-19, testing, public health emergency, pandemic, health information technology, health IT, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies","ModDate":"2020-06-04T11:34:09-04:00","Producer":"Microsoft\u00ae Word for Office 365","Title":"Sign-On Letter Re: Patient ID Funding Ban in FY21 Labor HHS Appropriations - House","Pages":3,"pdf:producer":"Microsoft\u00ae Word for Office 365","pdf:keywords":"patient matching, patient identification, patient safety, privacy, electronic health records, EHRs, COVID-19, testing, public health emergency, pandemic, health information technology, health IT, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies","dc:format":"application\/pdf","dc:creator":"Kate McFadyen","dc:title":"Sign-On Letter Re: Patient ID Funding Ban in FY21 Labor HHS Appropriations - House","dc:subject":["patient matching","patient identification","patient safety","privacy","electronic health records","EHRs","COVID-19","testing","public health emergency","pandemic","health information technology","health IT","Committee on Appropriations","Subcommittee on Labor","Health","and Human Services","Education","and Related Agencies"],"xmp:creatortool":"Microsoft\u00ae Word for Office 365","xmp:createdate":"2020-06-03T12:02:59-04:00","xmp:modifydate":"2020-06-04T11:34:09-04:00","xmp:metadatadate":"2020-06-04T11:34:09-04:00","xmpmm:documentid":"uuid:6D714615-AD28-45ED-9A52-1B480EBEE5E3","xmpmm:instanceid":"uuid:21eaf252-ca23-4a3f-8836-302f02597407"}

2020