Comments on: Applying Identity Resolution to Patient Identification Integrity http://identityresolutiondaily.com/605/applying-identity-resolution-to-patient-identification-integrity/ All About Identity and Entity Resolution Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen http://identityresolutiondaily.com/605/applying-identity-resolution-to-patient-identification-integrity/#comment-685 Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:56:13 +0000 http://identityresolutiondaily.com/605/applying-identity-resolution-to-patient-identification-integrity/#comment-685 Avoiding duplicate patients may be a very different task depending on from which country you are. In Scandinavia every citizen is assigned a unique citizen ID used all around in healthcare as well as other areas as election, driving license, welfare and so on. Newest improvements are that the ID is assigned to newborns by health care staff – as close to the root as possible as one may put it. More <a href="http://liliendahl.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/sweden-meets-united-states/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Avoiding duplicate patients may be a very different task depending on from which country you are.

In Scandinavia every citizen is assigned a unique citizen ID used all around in healthcare as well as other areas as election, driving license, welfare and so on.

Newest improvements are that the ID is assigned to newborns by health care staff – as close to the root as possible as one may put it.

More here.

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