Category: Master patient index

Identity resolution is the practical job a master patient index does in a FHIR-based stack. The headline is matching, but…

NextGate and Verato are the two commercial patient matching products that show up most often in enterprise MPI conversations in…

Health IT leaders watch the MPI category more closely than most outsiders realize. The MPI sits at the foundation of…

Cross-hospital patient matching is harder than single-hospital matching by an order of magnitude. The demographics are messier, the identifier overlap…

Deterministic and probabilistic patient matching are the two engines that sit underneath every FHIR master patient index. The labels sound…

Hospital networks pick a master patient index with the same care they pick a core EHR, because the MPI is…

A FHIR master patient index does the unglamorous work that keeps the rest of an interoperability stack honest. When two…

Have you ever stopped to wonder why healthcare systems often feel like a tangled mess of wires and incompatible devices?…

Have you ever stopped to wonder why healthcare systems seem to be stuck in the digital dark ages sometimes? I…