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Re:For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, unti... by sixothree on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:19PM (#14026148)
I work in health care. I can't begin to tell you how many hours are spent at the beginning of any project that involves another system discussing patient matching. A simple unique identifier would change so much about healthcare.
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Re:For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, unti... by lostlogin on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:42PM (#14026373)
I work in a system that has that. It isn't the holy land you dream of. Yes, it helps but people forget it, have 2, have none and others transpose numbers, type a wrong value and generally ruin it. If there was a non creepy way of having an RFID embedded at birth...
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Re:For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, unti... by joshuaduffy on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:57PM (#14027079)
The format the NHS use is proven to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_number

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