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unit 5 assignment health.docx Unit-5 Unit 5 Assignment Advanced Health Informatics Purdue University Global The master patient index (MPI) is a crucial component to the healthcare system. The... MPI provides patients with a unique identifier used to organize an individual s clinical, financial, and administrative information. Errors associated with this system are costly and potentially detrimental to a patient s life. Potential errors are as simple as misspellings, accidentally assigning patients a second medical number, or registering a patient under an existing number (Just, 2016). Double registering is a huge error and causes an intertwine of information. One patient s medical information/ history is now connected to another, which makes diagnoses, interventions, and treatments confusing and harmful. Language barriers only accentuate this problem. Name changes due to marriage and/or divorce can also create a w. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [Show More]
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