Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: a case study of a national master patient index in production since five years

Abstract Background Unequivocal identification of patients is a precondition for a safe medical journey through different information systems (ISs) and software applications that are communicating and exchanging interoperable data. A master patient index (MPI) can facilitate this task. Being a repos...

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Main Authors: Raffaella Vaccaroli, Frédéric Markus, Samuel Danhardt, Heiko Zimmermann, Francois Wisniewski, Pascale Lucas, Hervé Barge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-020-01178-y