[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone on the board have some suggestions about developing and > using UNIQUE Patient Identifier Numbers across practices owned and operated > individually and between hospital and labs. I assume you are familiar with: http://ncvhs.hhs.gov/app0.htm At any rate IMHO to accomodate the reality that there is already a large amount of data in electronic format, in a wide variety of systems with different constraints, the real solution is to develop a Centralized Patient ID Service (that's really hard for a libertarian to admit <g>) where an institution ID is concatenated with the existing patient ID that they use. This will require a significant amount of manual effort. But in the long run it will reduce/eliminate a lot of work that is being done now, and reduce the number of mistakes. While FreePM is NOT a centralized ID repository, an allowance was made to help associate foreign data to get it into the proper EMR. Example: http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM/emr/accounting/patient/PA-989960123 The list of institutions is configurable through the ZMI and an unlimited number of ID's can be entered. HTH, -- Tim Cook, President - FreePM,Inc. http://www.FreePM.com Office: (731) 884-4126 ONLINE DEMO: http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ FreePM Support List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freepm-discuss
