Current eCR eLabs results assignment is performed based on a 'straight-up' matching of Patient Last Name, First Name, Gender Code and Date of Birth values as recorded in the Patient Details record. CFC has numerous cases where the results matching fails too often due to Patient Name changes with the Lab Results having to be manually assigned via Lab Results manager or being assigned to a duplicate Patient Details records that was not previously detected.

This request includes two enhancements to the eLabs matching logic to improve matching results:
1. The Last Name / First Name values should be normalized before matching - i.e., all spaces, hyphens, and apostrophes should be removed from a compound name element on both sides of the entries (Lab Result / Patient Details record) to be matched before a comparison is made. This would eliminate mis-matches due to a name element change in Patient Details.

1. After normalizing, if more that one Patient Details record matches the information from the eLabs Result, the match should not automatically assign to the first matching record - rather it should be marked as an error in the transaction log and manually resolved using the Lab Results Manager function.