Person Names

By default, each name stored in the master index is phonetically encoded, and a patient’s primary and alias names are normalized prior to phonetic encoding. Normalization is based on the United States domain. The following fields are included in the object structure to store the normalized data.

• Person.StdFirstName

• Person.StdMiddleName

• Person.StdLastName

• Alias.StdFirstName

• Alias.StdMiddleName

• Alias.StdLastName

The following fields are included in the object structure to store the phonetic codes for each name.

• Person.FnamePhoneticCode (patient’s first name)

• Person.LnamePhoneticCode (patient’s last name)

• Person.MnamePhoneticCode (patient’s middle name)

• Person.MotherMNPhoneticCode (mother’s maiden name)

• Person.MaidenPhoneticCode (patient’s maiden name)

• Person.SpousePhoneticCode (spouse’s name)

• Person.MotherPhoneticCode (mother’s name)

• Person.FatherPhoneticCode (father’s name)