Digital transformation in healthcare is no longer a distant goal. Organizations across the care continuum are working on keeping up with a changing healthcare landscape as health organizations are generating more data than ever before. Data management is especially important for healthcare companies since a complete picture of every person in the system is necessary for superior patient care. There are different solutions to manage this data, but it can be difficult to decide between available options.
There are different options organizations can choose from to manage their data:
Master data management (MDM) solutions
Enterprise master patient index (EMPI) solutions
Healthcare-specific master data management (hMDM)
Master data management (MDM) and master patient index (MPI) services developed over the last 30 years in response to an increase in digital patient information and a need for streamlined data governance. MPIs first emerged as part of electronic health records (EHR) to identify duplicate records in the application. However, they were not built to match records across different sources. As more data was managed digitally, second-generation enterprise master patient index (EMPI) solutions were developed. Most recently, the first true hMDM solution has emerged as the next generation of MDM specifically for healthcare organizations.