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 use cases might include:  

1)  Ensuring the the entity doesn't exist when entering a new instance of the entity

2)  

High Level Overview of Service Components

FHIR Reference 

Matching Engine

Interfaces

Different interfaces will be created to instantiate different use cases.