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.
Proposed training courses
PHII courses
- Fundamentals of IIS: Data Quality
- Fundamentals of IIS: Interoperability
- Fundamentals of IIS: HL7 Basics
- Welcome to IIS Email Course
- IT Lifecycle Fundamentals for Public Health
- The Stakes Are High: Stakeholder Engagement for Public Health
- Communications for Emerging Public Health Leaders
- Advanced HL7 for IIS
- Training for IIS
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.