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Duplicate patient records often arise in electronic medical record systems. These duplicates cause fragmentation of a patient records and hinder access to seamless integrated patient data. The PatientMatching module is a tool that helps OpenMRS installations to identify and merge duplicate Patient records arising within the OpenMRS database. The PatientMatching module has been incrementally developed over the last few years by a cohort of Google Summer of Code interns, systems engineers, and Medical Informatics Researchers. Our hope is that GSoC 2012 will see continued success in evolving the module's functionality.
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