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Typically entered as “Baby Surname”, “Baby Boy Surname”, “Baby Girl Surname”. For twins, yeah I don’t think I’ve seen and index appended to their name. I feel l
by leovander 7y ago
Typically entered as “Baby Surname”, “Baby Boy Surname”, “Baby Girl Surname”. For twins, yeah I don’t think I’ve seen and index appended to their name. I feel like even if the EHR system had the birth time, I would normally get their birthdate starting at midnight. Let’s hope the EHR system keeps a unique MRN for those twins, because down stream systems are totally going to commingle their records. Same applies to Jrs living in the same house as the parent, since their demographics match the parent’s other than birthdate.
- Scoundreller 7y agoFrom what I’ve seen in multiple pregnancies; they’ll give a name like “Male Child 1” for the first male birth in that pregnancy and so on. All MRNs should be unique and everything else can be a duplicate. Every system should support name changes and merges. John Does come in all the time, and then you figure out their existing MRN, or their real name.
- leovander 7y ago> All MRNs should be unique and everything else can be a duplicate. > Every system should support name changes and merges. John Does come in all the time, and then you figure out their existing MRN, or their real name. In theory yes, I’d hope to see that across the board, but fat fingering happens way too often on top of the reuse of mrn’s. I work in the IHE space, so I can point fingers at most of the big guys as we accept their HL7/CDA feeds and not even ids from the same system are consistent between the formats. I don’t want to get too off topic with that last line, but yeah we try to consolidate records that are received by leveraging Fellegi-Sunter[0]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage