The Problem
A person is registered at clinic1 and their record is send to and stored in the client registry. They also have various encounters captured during their visit and these are send to and stored in the shared health record and linked to the person record in the client registry via their ECID, ECID1, found in the client registry record. a while later that same person goes to a different clinic, clinic2, for a visit. The demographics entered at the clinic do not return any results from the client registry, so the registration clerk does a new registration. This registration record is sent to the client registry. In the client registry it is not automatically matched to the existing person record that already exists. The patient goes on to see a clinician and encounter are sent to the shared health record and saved with a link to the the new ECID, ECID2. We now have 2 separate records for a single person in the client registry and 2 separate records for clinical encounter for each of the record in the client registry, identified by ECID1 and ECID2 respectively.
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