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Specified Life Devoted to the topic of data specification (including data organization, data description, data retrieval and data sharing) in the life sciences and in medicine. Showing posts with label object identifier . Show all posts Showing posts with label object identifier . Show all posts Monday, June 27, 2011 Patient identifiers in Electronic Health Records I have posted an article on patient identifiers. Here is a short excerpt from the article: Imagine this scenario. You show up for treatment in the hospital where you were born, and in which you have been seen for various ailments over the past three decades. One of the following events transpires: 1. The hospital has a medical record of someone with your name, but it's not you. After much effort, they find another medical record with your name. Once again, it's the wrong person. After much time and effort, you are told that the hospital has no record for you. 2. The hospital has y...