Master Patient Index will be kept by the hospital or medical institution permanently. It is also called Enterprise or enterprise-wide master patient index and it is a database that is used to healthcare organization to maintain its consistency, accurate information of the patients and essential medical documents or data of the patients managed within the departments. It is important to have an accurate identification of individuals that are in the Master Patient (person) Index or MPI in an organization. The MPI is also the registry of every patient in a healthcare it is used to identify, match, de-duplicate and cleanses the record of the individual. It is helpful to the healthcare organization to have this because they can find faster the data or information of the patients they searching.
<em>The Master Patient Index Module </em>is essential for the accurate sharing of clinical data across healthcare organizations. It is a central component of any future-oriented eHealth(
it is the support that the cost-effective and safe use of information and communications technologies offers to health and related fields). Using a powerful matching algorithm, it compares patient data from disparate systems, links related records under an Enterprise Unique Identifier and creates a Golden Record.
