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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-12594

Patient match shouldn't require match-grade

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    • Resolution: Persuasive
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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • DSTU2
    • Patient Administration
    • Patient
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      The wording will be updated to relax the requirement for the matchgrade extension to be included so that if a system doesn't do grading, the extension isn't required.

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      The wording will be updated to relax the requirement for the matchgrade extension to be included so that if a system doesn't do grading, the extension isn't required.
    • Micheal Donnelly/Line Saele: 13-0-2
    • Enhancement
    • Compatible, substantive
    • DSTU2

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      Current spec says:

      "All patient records SHALL have a search score from 0 to 1, where 1 is the most certain match, along with an extension "match-grade" that indicates the MPI's position on the match quality."

      It's not clear why we would mandate that in the core spec. Not all MPIs produce the second and it's somewhat redundant with the first. Suggest making it a "should" or provide an explanation of why it's a mandatory and how to meaningfully/consistently map scores to those codes.

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            lloyd Lloyd McKenzie
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