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

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-08-13, at 10:17 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> 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

How populous are your nursing homes? Maybe they form part of the (sci fi film) 
"Matrix"?

Just kidding.  But the manual "name alerts" are good ideas, even for 
non-identical but similar (sound-alike) names.

Another benefit of photos in an EMR (when such photos would be available). Not 
that they would form part of any returning lab tests. But, eventually, maybe 
there would be a (hopefully HASH) of a genomic fingerprint both in the EMR and 
in the returned lab result. Now that is scary!

-- Jim