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

[Karsten Hilbert]

> 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

Would that not  be a good idea for an automated warning ?

Show a marker when there is another patient with "same or similar" name ?

Karsten
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