What Is The Master Patient Index, How Is It Used, And Why Do Organizations Need It?
The abbreviation MPI stands for Master Patient Index, also known as client or patient registry. It is one of the crucial and significantly contributing resources in the healthcare sector. Traditional MPI used to be in paper format, but electronic MPI has made the process even easier thanks to the prevalence of technology.
Why MPI Is Essential?
The MPI is highly demanded in healthcare organizations because it is a time-efficient alternative to physical records. Here's why it is essential in a healthcare organization:
1. It affects the Quality of care provided
Master patient index provides information on a specific patient within a matter of seconds which, as a result, saves time by speeding up the process of retrieving a patient's information.
Furthermore, in physical records, often records were misplaced, or the doctors took a look at the wrong records because physical records are easier to lose.
2. Efficiency
With its easy retrieval feature, the efficiency of an organization can be enhanced considerably, hence improving the organization’s financial conditions.
3. Up-to-date medical history
With the help of an MPI, health care professionals can have access to the updated medical background of the patient anytime and anywhere. Furthermore, they can also check out what medical facilities they have visited before.
4. Avoids misinformation
Master patient index provides accurate information to the doctors about patients so that they can start appropriate treatment. Therefore, there is no chance of any error in medical history with MPI.
How To Implement Master Patient Index
1. Examining the condition of the organization
By conducting an examination, you will be able to identify the stakeholder and issues that need attention and appropriate solutions. Most importantly, this process of evaluation can also help in detecting difficulties and impediments.
2. Find leaders
The creation and execution of a client registry requires forming a group known as a Stakeholder leadership group (SLG) that includes strong and skilled leaders. SLG is the one that manages the client registry and should act as its governing body.
3. Requirements And Specifications
An ideal client registry responds to the demands of its user and the surrounding environment. To explain the functionality of the client registry and its purpose, take assistance from the two effective methods; user stories and the specification of data. This manual's primary purpose is to encourage a system governed by users’ needs and the country.
4. Project Strategy
The next step in implementing the client registry implementation process is to establish resources and develop a project strategy by utilizing the aforementioned user stories and specifications. At this stage, identifying patient algorithms takes place, and software and hardware are also selected at this stage.
5. Create Support strategy
It is essential to have a support strategy to handle data requests, operational assistance, system upgrades, and basic troubleshooting.
6. Final evaluation
When the system enters the stage where it is up and operating, the iterative development cycle may resume on a larger scale; however, different user stories and procedures will be required.
Why Organizations Must Implement MPI
Paper format or electronic format, the important thing is that it should accurately store an individual's actions or their treatment cycle. The primary purpose of MPI is to retrieve information about a specific individual quickly without manually searching for it. MPI works by collecting vital information such as their date of birth, gender, name, etc., and lastly, they provide a distinct identifier to each individual.
This information is essential in Interoperability. Implementing MPI will make your medical software able to communicate - retrieve or update the correct patient’s data through HL7/FHIR.
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