The onlyCertainMatches parameter may be optionally set to true to indicate that the Patient Demographics Consumer would only like matches returned when they are certain to be matches for the subject of the request.
The Patient Demographics Consumer might want to use onlyCertainMatches to prevent multiple Patient Resources from being returned in the response. This is often necessary in B2B cases where the Patient Demographics Consumer is operating in the background without a user confirming the Patient match.
However, onlyCertainMatches does not guarantee that only a single Patient Resource will be returned. There might still be multiple results returned in the response when the same person has multiple records in the Patient Demographics Supplier. FHIR-37361 and FHIR-40880 request an additional parameter for specifying that matches should only be returned when there is exactly 1 certain match.
When updating PDQm to a version of FHIR with FHIR-37361 and FHIR-40880 applied, the new parameter will need to be incorporated into the ITI-119 transaction.
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onlyCertainMatchesparameter may be optionally set totrueto indicate that the Patient Demographics Consumer would only like matches returned when they are certain to be matches for the subject of the request.The Patient Demographics Consumer might want to use
onlyCertainMatchesto prevent multiple Patient Resources from being returned in the response. This is often necessary in B2B cases where the Patient Demographics Consumer is operating in the background without a user confirming the Patient match.However,
onlyCertainMatchesdoes not guarantee that only a single Patient Resource will be returned. There might still be multiple results returned in the response when the same person has multiple records in the Patient Demographics Supplier. FHIR-37361 and FHIR-40880 request an additional parameter for specifying that matches should only be returned when there is exactly 1 certain match.When updating PDQm to a version of FHIR with FHIR-37361 and FHIR-40880 applied, the new parameter will need to be incorporated into the ITI-119 transaction.