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School health program rosters have an MPI shape that does not match any other US healthcare setting. The roster is a student information system feed, the patient population is exclusively minors, the identifiers are student IDs that do not

Community health centers in the US sit in an awkward middle ground when it comes to picking an MPI. They are too small to absorb an enterprise MPI procurement comfortably, and too large to live with a basic match endpoint that ships with a

Veteran patient identifiers carry a specific cluster of edge cases that most generic MPI engines were not designed for. A veteran often has a VA-issued identifier, a TRICARE identifier, a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier, and an EDIPI from t

Ambulatory surgery centers have an MPI shape with one specific stress point. The same patient is touched by the referring physician's office, the ASC's pre-op intake, the anesthesia provider, the surgical team, the post-op recovery, and the

Rural critical access hospitals have an MPI shape that does not match either an academic medical center or a community hospital. The patient volume is lower, the operating budget is tighter, and the patient population overlaps heavily with

Home health agencies sit at the awkward edge of patient matching. The patient is at home, the data sources are fragmented across the hospital that discharged the patient, the physician that referred the visit, the pharmacy that filled the m

Long-term care facilities have an MPI shape that does not match either a hospital or a payer. The resident stays for months or years, the records accumulate from a dozen disparate sources including hospital transfers, pharmacy fills, and la

Dental service organizations have a patient matching problem that catches most generic MPI tools off guard. The patient is often the same person across multiple practice locations, but the practice management system at each location maintai

State Medicaid programs have a master patient index shape that does not match either a hospital MPI or a commercial payer MPI. The member population churns constantly, the data sources include MMIS, eligibility files from state systems of r