Mass Deduplication

Duplicate patient records create a serious issue for most public health and behavioral health agencies. With Netsmart’s Deduplication solutions, users can solve the duplication problem without spending large amounts of money on consultants and weeks tuning data. 

Mass Deduplication is a cost-effective tool that has a simple GUI interface, and can typically be installed in less than an hour.

The product is built on more than 20 years of deduplication experience. It uses a sophisticated proprietary method to sharply divide the real duplicates from the similar records. Unlike naive probabilistic methods, this product can identify twins.

Mass Deduplication Features:

• Runs on a stand-alone workstation, disconnected from the database. It doesn't tie up valuable server and network resources.
• For a system that does such exhaustive checking, Mass Deduplication is fast, processing a million records in around 24 hours (depending on the number of fields available, the speed of the workstation and the number of duplicates in the data).
• High confidence scoring is suitable for automatic matching without human intervention.
• Provides lists of less-confident matches for human research.
• Includes National Death Index and Census name frequency data for use when deduplicating small databases. (For large databases frequencies of names within the database itself are used).
• Sophisticated typographical error recognition.
• Is based on a proprietary pattern-probabilistic scoring technology.
• There are no "tuning" requirements and comes pre-calibrated for health data.
• Can print multiple reports at different quality and confidence settings quickly, without re-running the deduplication.

Benefits:

• Reduces over-immunization caused by vaccination histories split over duplicate records.
• Improves medical care and prevents medical errors by making the full medical record available at the time of service.
• Reduces fraud by detecting patients presenting at different facilities.
• Computes accurate denominators for the patient population.

Contact Netsmart today for additional product information.