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1. Types of Unique Patient Identifiers
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Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics

Last time we talked about the perfect/ideal unique patient identifier. Today, we go over some of the examples of the identifiers that are currently in use:

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• Social Security Number
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• Biometric Identifiers
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• Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier
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Since these still have problems that are discussed in this episode, how do we mitigate the problems when we can\'t get a perfect identifier? The answer would be in next week\'s episode of Pharmacy, IT, & Me.

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