Get the Records Straight: Electronic Health Data System in Bronx Clinic

The patients had the same name, lived in the same city and were born only one day apart.

But the girl in front of Dr. Shamiza Ally was not the one in the photo on her medical record.

It turns out the front office staff had inadvertently checked in the wrong patient, and Ally had filled in the wrong person's chart. Ally did not catch the error until it was time to schedule a followup visit...