The deduplication specialist is responsible for conducting data cleansing activities for both incoming data and data at rest in the IIS. A key responsibility of this role is manual IIS record deduplication, i.e., the process of identifying and resolving duplicate patient demographic and/or vaccination records created when information from multiple sources doesn’t match (e.g., misspelled name or nickname, new address), or too little identifying information is submitted for the same patient and the IIS is unable to automatically match and merge the records.

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Proposed training courses

Based on the size and needs of the IIS program, staff in this role may have leadership and management duties or responsibilities. If so, consider adding the following PHII-developed IIS course to the proposed training path: Leadership and Management for IIS.