IWeb 5.17.5 Administrator User Guide

Automatic Master Deduplication Procedure (Scanning)

This is an automatic process that reviews all of the records in the patient master table. For example:

A patient named John Aaron Smith, born on 1/1/1999, enters the registry and is displayed in manual review against a patient named John Aaron Smitty, born on 10/10/1999.

Since these records are not similar enough to be safely merged, the person performing the manual review decides that the records are different, thus resulting in two separate patient records. Weeks later, the sender of the record for patient Smitty corrects the record and changes it to John Aaron Smith, born on 1/1/1999. Now the records are similar enough to be merged. Since both records exist in the master tables as two different patients, the Master Deduplication process is used to merge them.

Related topics:

• Appendix D: Additional Deduplication Information
• Patient Deduplication
• Deterministic (Default) Rules/Logic
• Probabilistic Rules/Logic
• Vaccination Deduplication
• Deduplication Command-Line Procedures
• Deduplication Settings