Advocates of unique IDs to match patients to their health records may be close to lifting a decadeslong congressional ban on using federal funds to develop the system
Patients rest in a hallway in the emergency room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on Jan. 27, 2021, in Apple Valley, Calif. | Mario Tama/Getty Images.
The effort, long mired in broader debates over patient privacy, gained steam this fall when the Senate for the first time left the ban out of a fiscal 2022 spending package. But its ultimate fate is still tied to uncertainties surrounding the appropriations process and an overdue report on the benefits and risks from the Department of Health and Human Services' health information technology office that could influence the system's design.
“Whenever you propose anything that sort of resembles national ID, then what happens is that the ACLU will jump down your throat from the left and then the Red Dawn people jump down your throat from ... the Libertarian right,” said Rep. Bill Foster , who has led efforts to drop the ban with Rep. Mike Kelly . The two lawmakersThe ID is a number that health providers would use to match and manage patient information and, for example, help distinguish patients with the same name.
But the current push comes amid a pandemic that’s spawned heated debates over matters like vaccine passports and other digital credentialsThe most prominent defender of the funding ban is Sen. Rand Paul , whose father, former Rep. Ron Paul, devised the language that was inserted in annual spending bills.
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