More than 20 healthcare organizations have expressed support for using the USPS standard when recording patients’ addresses in the EHR to improve patient matching, according to Pew Charitable Trusts.

The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has partnered with standards development organizations and other experts to release the Project US@ Draft Technical ...

Focusing on something as simple as a mailing address may sound mundane. However, it's one of the key elements often used for the purposes of linking records, wrote Steven Posnack, deputy of the Office ...