Re: [Gnumed-devel] Matching was Re: Mirth (2 of 3): HL7 import for the GNUmed project - test source message

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Jim Busser wrote:
> Two patients can correctly have the same name. This then depends on date of
> birth and / or another identified (health number) for differentiation.
> This is already supported.

The same name and the same DOB, in a large enough database.

Our long term nursing facilities have big markers which say "another patient 
has the same or a similar name"
They are human encoded and placed