Re: [Health-dev] [Health] Should PUID be a compulsory field when creating new patients?

[Emilien Klein]

Going in the other direction: I currently work with organizations that
are undergoing mergers, which means that patients from 2 organizations
(thus with 2 different patient IDs) need to be merged. Is there a
mechanism in GNU Health to manage multiple patient IDs?

If that exists, the idea of generating a temporary patient ID and
later a definite one could be handled by this possibility of a a
single record having multiple IDs.

2014-09-23 17:40 GMT+02:00 ronald munjoma <address@hidden>:
> Hi Andrew and Bounmy,
>
> In some countries and implementations they are talking of a single unique
> identifier for life. It will be interesting to find out how Jamaica is
> handling this. Here is Zimbabwe there has been talk of a single unique
> identifier for life but I do not see it happening any time soon.
>
> A few articles from the net (Mainly US related):
>
> http://www.cardiosource.org/Advocacy/Issues/Health-Information-Technology/ACC-Policies-and-Activities/Unique-Patient-Identifier-Principles.aspx
>
> http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204124204577154661814932978
>
> http://www.poweryourpractice.com/revenue-cycle-management/patient-identifier-best-practices/
>
> http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/app3.htm
>
> Best and Regards
> Ronald Munjoma
>
>
>
> On 23 September 2014 17:15, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the replies on this important issue.
>>
>> I think that GNU Health
>> should, by default, create a temporary patient number e.g. - "TPN-00001" -
>> if
>> an actual patient number is not entered in the PUID field.
>>
>> It should then be
>> possible to over-ride this temporary number when the correct patient ID
>> number
>> is known.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best and Regards
> Ronald Munjoma
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