Fierce Healthcare writes: The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has abandoned its National Patient ID Challenge and plans to redirect its efforts into leading a patient identification task force. Launched two years ago, the global competition sought to identify a solution to ensure the healthcare industry could identify patients in the U.S. with 100% accuracy. In May, CHIME announced four finalists that would compete for a $1 million grand prize. The winner was scheduled to be announced on Nov. 3. Although the challenge made “great progress and moved the industry forward in many ways,” CHIME CEO Russell Branzell said in an announcement, it “ultimately did not achieve the results we sought to this complex problem.”
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Fierce Healthcare: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ehr/chime-national-patient-id-challenge-patient-matching-onc-jon-white
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