Category: Master patient index

Mid-size hospitals sit in the awkward middle of the MPI procurement question. They are too large to muddle through with…

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…

Most payer teams reading CMS-0057-F focus on the four new APIs and the January 1, 2027 enforcement deadline for the…

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…

FHIR integration queries have specific patterns that show up in production. Five cover most use cases. 1. Point-of-care Patient reads.…