A SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AND CONSOLIDATING RECORDS

摘要

A system prevents the creation of duplicate records and identifies, groups, and consolidates duplicate records and manages the associated workload. A method consolidates multiple records that are associated with a single entit y and are stored in at least one record repository. The method involves identifying first and second records and applying record matching criteria t o compare data element content of the first and second identified records to determine commonality data. The commonality data is indicative of a likeliho od the first and second records are associated with a common entity. The first and second record content is merged into a composite record in response to t he determined commonality data. One of the first and second records are selecte d as a surviving record based on earliest date of record creation or relative content of the first and second records