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

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > 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


certainly, that's why i mentioned it