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+type: add
+issue: 2021
+title: "Added [EMPI](https://hapifhir.io/hapi-fhir/docs/server_jpa_empi/empi.html) functionality, including phonetic
+indexing, asynchronous rules-based patient and practitioner matching when resources are created and updated.  A number of
+[EMPI Operations](https://hapifhir.io/hapi-fhir/docs/server_jpa_empi/empi_operations.html) are provided to
+maintain EMPI links (e.g. resolving possible matches and possible duplicates).  Also batch operations
+are provided to identify links in existing patients and practitioners, and to 'wipe clean' all EMPI data and re-run
+the batch as the empi matching rules are refined."