Description of Session
A Master Patient Index (MPI) is an electronic medical database that holds information on every patient registered at a healthcare organization. It also includes data on physicians, other medical staff, and facility employees. Master patient index is a database that is used all over the world in healthcare organization maintains consistent, accurate and current demographic and essential medical data of the patients seen and managed within its various departments. The patient is assigned a unique identifier that is used to refer to this patient across the enterprise. Health Information system is marching diligently toward a more connected system of care through the use of EHRs and electronic exchange of patient information between hospitals. Patient Identification and matching are focused on to help ensure the accuracy of every patient’s data and the availability of their information wherever and whenever care is needed. MPI provides an Application Programming Interface (API) for querying and searching the MPI to find patients and the ways or the pointers to their identifiers and records. Registration or other practice management applications may interact with the index when admitting new patients to have the single best record from the start or may have the records indexed at a later time.
