Standardization and Matching Logic

Sharing data requires overcoming data quality problems such as name and address changes, transpositions, and phonetically similar names to be able to uniquely identify the same patient across multiple systems. Sun Master Patient Index uses the Sun Match Engine, a proprietary algorithm for probabilistic matching of patient records and data standardization. As records are processed through Sun Master Patient Index, the standardization engine normalizes and phonetically encodes specified data and the match engine identifies records that potentially represent or do represent the same patient. The match engine uses user-defined logic, including configurable matching thresholds, comparison functions, data fields, and so on.