HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1
2.1.1 - Normative

HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1, published by HL7 International / Electronic Health Records. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.1.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/ehrsfm-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : AS.2.1 Synchronize Patient Demographic Data (Function)

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    @prefix fhir: <http://hl7.org/fhir/> .
    @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
    @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
    @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
    @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

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  <div><p>The system SHOULD tag a patient who has similar names in other systems (e.g., aliases, similar names to family members for common issues, multiple patients with same name, one patient with multiple names in external systems).</p>\n</div>\n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n            AS.2.1#05\n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n            SHOULD\n            \n                \n            \n            \n            \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture a patient's information from multiple internal or external systems and harmonize the information.</p>\n</div>\n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n            AS.2.1#06\n            </td>\n         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