Joint industry letter to U.S. House and U.S. Senate regarding outdated rider language in the Fiscal Year 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bills that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from spending any federal dollars to promulgate or adopt a national unique patient identifier (UPI)
Download the U.S. House Letter Download the U.S. Senate Letter On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we urge you to reject the inclusion of outdated rider language in the Fiscal Year 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bills that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services […]
The Sequoia Project to Present at ONC’s 2nd Interoperability Forum
Non-profit to co-lead all-day track on patient matching; participate in diverse panel sessions (Vienna, VA – August 1, 2018) – The Sequoia Project is pleased to announce it is presenting at The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) 2nd Interoperability Forum on August 6th-8th, 2018 in Washington, DC. This three-day event will […]
National Patient Matching Framework Updated
The Sequoia Project adopts public evaluation and comment for framework Vienna, VA – June 12, 2018 – The Sequoia Project announced the results of a multi-year effort of a diverse stakeholder workgroup to examine and revise best practices for patient matching between health information exchange partners. The revised whitepaper, entitled “A Framework for Cross-Organizational Patient […]
Sequoia Project forming Patient Identity Matching Workgroup
The Sequoia Project, which operates eHealth Exchange, a national health information network, is calling on industry stakeholders along with policy and technical experts to join a new workgroup to find ways to improve and better standardize patient identity matching without using a national patient identification number.
Sequoia to Launch Patient Matching Workgroup
The Sequoia Project, the purveyor of the health information exchange framework Carequality, is seeking nine to 12 identity matching experts to serve on a workgroup on linking patients to their correct medical records. The group would sort through public comments in response to Sequoia’s patient matching framework and identify acceptable patient matching practices for Sequoia […]
Patient Identity Management Work Group Announced
The Sequoia Project to convene industry and government to improve Patient Matching capabilities nationwide Call for participation now open VIENNA, VA (December 15, 2016) – The Sequoia Project, a 501(c)3 non-profit committed to identifying and solving the remaining barriers to ubiquitous nationwide health data sharing, is seeking healthcare stakeholders, as well as policy and technical […]
The Sequoia Project Creating Patient Identity Management Workgroup
The Sequoia Project plans to create a new cross-organizational patient identity management workgroup and is seeking healthcare stakeholders, as well as policy and technical experts, to join the workgroup in order to focus on improving patient matching capabilities.
Proposed National Patient Matching Framework Dramatically Increases Health Exchange Partner Match Rates
The Sequoia Project and the Care Connectivity Consortium (CCC) Seeks Public Evaluation and Comment for Proposed National Framework McLean, VA – November 10, 2015 – The Sequoia Project and the Care Connectivity Consortium (CCC) today announced the results of a multi-year effort to examine best practices for patient matching for health information exchange partners. The […]
