She suggests that such corporations have been behind most social and cultural movements, including microfinance organizations such as the Grameen Bank, the national Unique Identification program, literature festivals and anti-corruption movements.
A robust EMPI solution, a biometrics-based solution or a national unique identifier have proven to be the best options so far.
Everyone has a national unique identifier, an NHS number, which helps identify their records.
A national unique identifier number for patients could facilitate data collection, and in 2013 the government published legislation to create a legal basis for its introduction [ 59].
The register holds information on each woman including their national unique health identifier, name, address, date of birth, ethnicity, and cervical screening history.
Information extracted from each source included the national unique personal identification number, place of residence, diagnosis, date of diagnosis and method of confirmation.
The second is the NN4B data set, which is generated when the NHS Number, a national unique patient identifier, is issued.
Despite an ever increasing trend to the recording of national unique numerical identifiers we would argue that probabilistic record linkage using traditional person identifiable data still provides the flexibility to link with data sources not compatible with such a key.
In two of the sites, a national unique patient identifier (the "NHS number") was available on both health and social care data sets and this was used as the basis for the data linkage.
These data will be linked and pseudo-anonymised to just NHS number: A national, unique, ten-digit identifier that makes it possible to share patient information across the whole of the NHS) then supplemental data about specific diagnosis and laboratory advice will be added from hospital pathology laboratory records [ 20].
