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Re: [Health-dev] Should PUID be a compulsory field when creating new pat


From: ronald munjoma
Subject: Re: [Health-dev] Should PUID be a compulsory field when creating new patients?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:40:45 +0200

​Hi Andrew and Bounmy,

In some countries and implementations they are talking of a single unique identifier for life. It will be interesting to find out how Jamaica is handling this. Here is Zimbabwe there has been talk of a single unique identifier for life but I do not see it happening any time soon.

A few articles from the net (Mainly US related):

http://www.cardiosource.org/Advocacy/Issues/Health-Information-Technology/ACC-Policies-and-Activities/Unique-Patient-Identifier-Principles.aspx

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204124204577154661814932978

http://www.poweryourpractice.com/revenue-cycle-management/patient-identifier-best-practices/

http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/app3.htm

Best and Regards
Ronald Munjoma



On 23 September 2014 17:15, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
Thanks for the replies on this important issue.

I think that GNU Health
should, by default, create a temporary patient number e.g. - "TPN-00001" - if
an actual patient number is not entered in the PUID field.

It should then be
possible to over-ride this temporary number when the correct patient ID number
is known.

Regards

Andrew




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