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From: mascarton@wpmail.code3.com (Mark A. Scarton)
Subject: Re: Applications? - Person identification...
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rijkbenik@gnn.com (rijkbenik) wrote:

> Do you know of projects/products that use fuzzy logic to find a 
> person in a database? People do not always provide the exact same 
> information and errors exist in the database. However, I assume 
> fuzzy logic could help to find the most likely candidates in the 
> database anyway. 
> Data elements that could be used for identification include:  
> Last Name, First Name, Middle Name, Alias, Sex, Birth Date, 
> Address, phone number.

You might want to consider getting in touch with the closest university to you
that has a program in medical informatics.  Attempting to determine what patient
you are dealing with given limited, incorrect, ... information is a very typical
problem in MI and accessing a medical records repository.  And yes, fuzzy search
and matching techniques are currently in use.

A couple of pointers to start you out on your line of inquiry include:

American Medical Informatics Association Internet Working Group
http://www-informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/Amia/homepage.htm

Community Health Management Information Systems [CMIS]
http://www.chmis.org/

The Medical Education Page
http://www.primenet.com/~gwa/med.ed/

And please, do report back to the group with what you've found.  Algorithms are
nice too!  ;-)


Mark A. Scarton, ABD
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