Question

1. Healthcare facilities must have processes in place to maintain and correct the master patient index (MPI) against the quality issues of duplicates, overlays, and overlaps on a continuous basis. Which of the following is used to match patients so that patient information can be merged?
Correct answer: Algorithm
incorrect answer: Encoder

Why? You will provide a brief summary (3 sentences) about what you learned about the correct response and what you learned about the incorrect response chosen (3 sentences)

Answer 1

Correct response: Algorithm

Algorithm is a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations.

In this case it is used to match patients and their data so that patient information can be merged.

An algorithm is a detailed series of instructions to solve a problem step by step. So, it will check every data of the patient step by step and can ensure that the data of the patients are okay in each and every stage and quality issues of duplicates, overlays, and overlaps on a continuous basis is reduced/removed.

Incorrect response: Encoder

Encoder is a device, software program, algorithm etc. which converts the information from one format to another.

Using algorithm we will first sort the data in a proper manner according to the requirement and then send to encoder.

So, to match the patients data properly and maintaining the quality we have to use Algorithm to sort and then encoder to encode in a secure format.