Maplewood B (Crowne Plaza Ravinia)
Tuesday, October 28, 2003: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

D4: Winning the Match Game: Improving Deduplication Processes

The de-duplication process reduces the number of duplicate records in a Registry system. This is key to achieving and maintaining high quality data. This session will discuss the experience with de-duplication in Michigan and New York.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to describe common problems of duplicate record generation and multiple approaches to how to resolve them.

Moderator:Janet Kelly
3:30 PM Introductory Remarks
3:45 PM Discussion
4:00 PM 3787Development of a De-duplication model for a Public/Private Immunization Registry
nan Zhou, Daniel Lafferty, Julie Gleason-Comstock, Yan Jin
4:15 PM 3739Evolution of User Requirements for Deploying an Advanced Record Matching Solution
Andrew Borthwick, Paul S. Schaeffer, Alexandra Ternier
4:30 PM 3813Renovation of Physician Database to Eliminate Redundancy Data
Yan Jin, Nan Zhou, Daniel Lafferty, Farshad Fotouhi

The 2003 Immunization Registry Conference (October 27-29, 2003) of CDC