Why Patient Matching Is a Challenge: Research on Master Patient Index (MPI) Data Discrepancies in Key Identifying Fields¶
Just, B. H. Why Patient Matching Is a Challenge: Research on Master Patient Index (MPI) Data Discrepancies in Key Identifying Fields: Research on Master Patient Index (MPI) Data Discrepancies in Key Identifying Fields. Perspectives in Health Information Management.
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- In healthcare each department historically built its own records, ordering, and scheduling, and the patient whose care crosses departments is reassembled by hand until an enterprise EHR and interoperability standards extract the horizontal layer.
This sourceEstablishes that hospital departments historically maintained separate records, ordering, and scheduling systems, fragmenting the cross-department patient identity until an enterprise master patient index (EMPI) extracts a shared identity layer.
- In healthcare each department historically built its own records, ordering, and scheduling, and the patient whose care crosses departments is reassembled by hand until an enterprise EHR and interoperability standards extract the horizontal layer.
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