Overcoming Challenges of Merging Multiple Patient Identification and Matching Systems: A Case Study.

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Perspectives in health information management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association Pub Date : 2020-12-07 eCollection Date: 2021-01-01

Donna Crew, Shannon H Houser

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Abstract

Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center (RMC) in Anniston, Alabama purchased a smaller hospital in 2017. Staff at the two hospitals were tasked with merging the two Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems into one unified system. From the outset, there were two systems with different medical record number specifications and patient identification systems as well as two different patient name parameters. The merging of these records and systems meant dealing with different vendor EMR systems and ancillary systems to produce a single unified record within RMC's EMR and the document imaging system that housed the legal medical record for each patient. This case study describes the process and procedures of merging the patient records from both hospitals to create one Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI); and the collaboration between the Health Information Management and Information Technology departments to accomplish this goal. It also reviews the impact and challenges related to the system's development, as well as lessons learned while completing the project.

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克服合并多个患者识别和匹配系统的挑战:一个案例研究。

2017年，阿拉巴马州安尼斯顿的东北阿拉巴马州地区医疗中心(RMC)收购了一家规模较小的医院。两家医院的工作人员的任务是将两个电子病历系统合并为一个统一的系统。从一开始，就有两种不同的病案编号规范和患者识别系统，以及两种不同的患者姓名参数。这些记录和系统的合并意味着要处理不同供应商的电子病历系统和辅助系统，以便在RMC的电子病历和文件成像系统中生成一个统一的记录，该系统包含每个患者的合法医疗记录。本案例研究描述了合并两家医院的患者记录以创建一个企业主患者索引(EMPI)的过程和步骤;以及卫生信息管理和信息技术部门之间的合作来实现这一目标。它还回顾了与系统开发相关的影响和挑战，以及在完成项目时吸取的教训。

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期刊介绍： Perspectives in Health Information Management is a scholarly, peer-reviewed research journal whose mission is to advance health information management practice and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between HIM professionals and others in disciplines supporting the advancement of the management of health information. The primary focus is to promote the linkage of practice, education, and research and to provide contributions to the understanding or improvement of health information management processes and outcomes.