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I work in health care. I can't begin to tell you how many hours are spent at the beginning of any project that involves another system discussing patient matchi
by sixothree 10y ago
I work in health care. I can't begin to tell you how many hours are spent at the beginning of any project that involves another system discussing patient matching. A simple unique identifier would change so much about healthcare.
- lostlogin 10y agoI work in a system that has that. It isn't the holy land you dream of. Yes, it helps but people forget it, have 2, have none and others transpose numbers, type a wrong value and generally ruin it. If there was a non creepy way of having an RFID embedded at birth...
- joshuaduffy 10y agoThe format the NHS use is proven to work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_number