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What is Enterprise Master Patient Index?
Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and Master Patient Index (MPI) are often used interchangeably, but there are some differences between both.
The EMPI in healthcare is a database that encompasses information of patient records from multiple source systems and not just within a facility.
It links patients’ records from different facilities or healthcare providers and maintains them together to avoid repeated entries for a single patient.
Benefits of having EMPI in healthcare
- It assists in the identification of a patient’s health records from numerous source systems for each patient and links them together to avoid risks of incomplete data of a patient.
- It is essential in healthcare data management to eliminate the manual labor put on in matching patients using data.
- Medical EMPI helps make a master record of individual patients out of data, which is scattered across numerous sources on the inter-organizational level.
- Helps you get rid of excess duplicate data of one patient to avoid the risk of missing or improper information.
Why is there a need for Master Patient Index or Enterprise Master Patient Index?
Medical EMPI is vital today to track patient’s activity within or on an inter-organizational level for providing better care and services.
If a patient’s information is entered incorrectly in the patient record, demographic and clinical data may cause providers to miss critical elements of their patient’s prior care.
Inadequate and incorrect healthcare provider data leads to poor treatment plans and decreased quality of care and patient safety. Maintaining patient indexes and clinical records is quite a difficult task.
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