Master patient index also known as master person index is a way to link patient’s medical number record with common identification data requirement. Examples of these are patient’s complete name, date of birth, gender, mother’s maiden name, and Social Security number. MPI is the number one go to method to help important information for the patient to be found using paper based filing system in the health information Department. Most MPI are filed alphabetically. Which means physician’s offices don’t usually use the record numbers. There are two versions of MPI. The first is automated MPI’s which is used on computers and consistent of a database that identified data about the patient and the service of care that they received at any
