During data migration to dcm4chee 5.23.1, we notice the presence of several duplicate patient identities with the same patient ID and the same Issuer Of Patient ID).
These duplicated elements are very rare (1/1000) and occur at a few ms interval.
The particularity is that there are 3 DICOM connections that send to dcm4chee with sometimes series of the same patient in 2 or 3 different DICOM connections. Another specificity is that we have created a rule (Attribute Coercion) that cancels the content of the Issuer Of Patient ID field.
We believe that this problem is related to the concurrence of sending series of the same patient.
Although the number of cases is quite low, we are not able to fix them in the UI:
Is there a procedure for merging these duplicate patients?