Giving every American a unique patient identifier could reduce errors in retrieving their medical records while improving data sharing and security. A national identifier could also help protect patient privacy, or at least not further erode it. Those are key conclusions from Identity Crisis, a RAND study I coauthored several years ago…
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Michael G. Greenberg is a senior behavioral scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and director of the RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance.
