It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...

On July 31, 2020, the US House of Representatives voted to repeal a ban on the use of federal funding for the development of a universal patient identifier (UPI) for every individual in the United ...

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FDA has approved for medical use an implantable microchip that will allow physicians and other health care providers to have access to patient identifications and medical records, the Washington Post ...