On June 12, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would end the current federal ban on the funding of a national patient identification strategy. That action was applauded by senior advocacy leaders at the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). CHIME’s vice president of congressional affairs, Leslie Kriegstein, wrote in a blog on the association’s website, “Great news! Yesterday evening the House passed an amendment that would remove a prohibition on funding for a national patient identification strategy.
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June 13, 2019
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