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What is National Patient Identifier and how it can solve patient misidentification?

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Parul saini

A National Patient Identifier (NPI) is a permanently assigned, unique number assigned to a person, that can be used across the entire spectrum of a national healthcare system. Some examples are a medical record number, a national ID, a social security number, a driver's license number, Aadhar card number, etc.

Positives of Patient Identifiers:

  • Healthcare savings

  • Enhanced Security and Privacy

  • Achieving Interoperability

  • Improved patient data entries

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