Phonetic reduction of names.
The University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, required an efficient phonetic reduction of names for accessing up to one-million patient records. The familiar Soundex methodology was enhanced, to provide some equating of beginning letters but somewhat greater discrimination beyond. The result was a potent 16-bit representation; an appropriate algorithm is provided.
D003201:Computers; D009275:Names; D010700:Phonetics; D012984:Software