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The following msg types are supported:

Advantages:

• Easiest to implement for both applications.
• Handles all use cases

Disadvantages:

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List of fields populated from the HL7 messages:

• First name
• Last name
• Middle name
• Date of birth
• Race
• Ethnicity
• MRN
• Death date

Nightly database export

1. Every night, the Epic team provides a CSV or a database view/table with all the patient information.
2. The schema for the table will be provided by OpenSpecimen.
3. This table will be used as the "staging patient table" which will be used for lookup whenever a user enters MRN in the user interface.