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Purpose
The purpose of the entity matching service is to enable matching in a single list of patients, health workers, facilities or other entities or to find potential matches between two lists of entities.
Potential matching use cases might include:
- Ensuring the the entity doesn't exist when entering a new instance of the entity
- Duplicate checking during bulk imports.
- Analysis of potential duplicates in an existing data set.
- Mapping one data set of entities to their corresponding value in another data set.
Potential Implementations
- Tight coupling - Software library incorporated into the component
- Medium
- Loose -
High Level Overview of Mapping Service Components
FHIR Reference
Matching Engine
Interfaces
Different interfaces will be created to instantiate different use cases.