Which failure mode relates to incorrect patient matching in Care Everywhere setup?

• A. Misconfigured endpoints.
• B. Missing consent.
• C. Incorrect patient matching.
• D. Invalid CCDA.

Answer: (C)

The key idea here is patient identity linkage across Care Everywhere. The failure mode described is incorrect patient matching, which means the system assigns a patient’s data to the wrong individual or fails to connect the right records to the correct patient. This can lead to misattributed information, duplicate records, or critical data being missing where it should be. It’s a distinct issue from connectivity problems (misconfigured endpoints), privacy controls (missing consent), or document structure (invalid CCDA), which affect different parts of the workflow. Understanding how demographic data and identifiers are used to match patients across systems helps explain why incorrect matching is a distinct and important failure mode.