Question

You have just been hired as the HIM director at a 465 bed hospital. In preparation for participation in a regional HIE, your predecessor has just completed a data collection on duplicate entries in the MPI. She found a 1 percent duplication rate on 21,000 registrations last month. She found that this rate is acceptable. You interpret the finding differently. Explain your interpretation and assess what the next steps should be.

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Answer 1

HIM - Health Information Management 0 MPI = Master Patient Index The number of duplicates in MPI records are 210 and they are too many and causes many complication and they may confuse uso HIM directors work in hospitals by managing information and works with , hospital staff such as nurses, financial officers, physicians They act as link between patients and providers. They mainly maintain and overseas documentation. They are responsible for the privacy and security. And to ensure the

documents are accurate They are prepare HIM department budgets and employee evaluation. My next step includes: ", MPI process should be complete with correct information and social security numbers so it can be easy to find duplicate records. as the employees are educated and trained - in MPI 3, Duplicate records cause problems for both patients and organisation. 4. The information of health records should be entered correctly to provide correct treatment and by doing this the information about one's health will never miss. S MPI records duplication will leads to cost increase to both patients and hospitals.