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The Challenge of Patient Matching

Author: Rob Macmillan
Published: April 27, 2016
Category: Patient Matching
Tags: patient matchingpatient identificationNational Patient Identifier

The challenge of patient matching

This is an excellent article written about the continuing problems with Patient Matching; clearly a concern for the integrity of electonic health records. The article quantifies the occurence of duplicate records and the cost of repairing those duplicates.

Perspectives in Health Information Management: Beth Just et al