title: Connecting care through EMPIs.
abstract: A complete understanding of current and past medical conditions is essential to maintaining quality patient care, and it is care quality that suffers when the medical record in incomplete. Enterprise master patient indexes (EMPIs) can serve as critical tools in improving operations, protecting medical record integrity, and improving patient service. This article reveals how EMPIs are linking crucial patient information.
authors.affiliation: Madison Information Technologies, Inc., USA.
authors.forename: Joseph B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hewitt
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards*; D008500:Medical Records Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000145:classification; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D018511:Systems Integration; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014481:United States