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

Letter from several medical organizations to the Senate Committee on Appropriations urging leaders to reject the inclusion of outdated rider language in the FY 21 Labor-HHS Appropriations bills prohibiting funding to adopt a national unique patient identifier.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 - 12:01 PM EDT

Thu, 06/04/2020 - 11:33 AM EDT

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