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For instance, patients often forget their test results at home, or old tests get lost eventually. Imagine that all your medical records are stored in digital format, and when you go to Hospital A, a doctor there can examine your tomogram taken 4 years ago at Hospital B where your name was misspelled by the clerk
Future Development Goals
There are several improvements possible in the module. Some of these are:
UI improvements and bug fixes. Feedback from implementors and open tickets contain suggestions on how to improve web pages and work flow.
Metadata storage from matching runs. Currently, only patient matching output is stored. Information such as the user that ran the report, the runtime of the report, and which strategies were used should be associated for the output.
Integration into OpenMRS. The patient matching module might be moved from a module to a part of core OpenMRS. Code and resources will need to be organized, moved, and improved.
Downloads
http://modules.openmrs.org/modules/view.jsp?module=patientmatching
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