Health Identifiers
Accurate patient identity matching
Duplicate patient records cause medication errors, missed results, and billing issues. In Australia, IHI-based matching is the gold standard — but implementation requires careful workflow design.
Common challenges
What teams struggle with
Duplicate registrations
Patients register multiple times with slight name or address variations.
Legacy data without IHIs
Older records lack IHIs, making automated matching harder.
Merge vs link decisions
Teams need clear rules for when to merge records versus maintaining a master patient index.
Privacy during deduplication
Matching algorithms must comply with Australian Privacy Principles.
How we help
Practical solutions that ship
IHI-first matching
Use HI Service lookups as the primary matching key, with demographic fallback.
Probabilistic matching
Confidence-scored matching with human review for borderline cases.
Merge workflows
Safe merge procedures that preserve clinical history and audit trails.
Ongoing deduplication
Scheduled scans to catch new duplicates as data enters the system.
Frequently asked
Questions about patient identity matching
Can you clean up our existing duplicates?
Yes. We assess your data, run matching algorithms, and implement merge workflows with clinical team oversight.
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