Assignment:
What is the Discussion Board (DB)?
There are several functions that are performed by master patient index. For example, with the help of Master Patient Index, a healthcare organization can maintain a unique index for each and every patient in an effective manner. It means a Master Patient Index represent information and data about a patient locally (Griffin, 2011). In addition, MPI is also used by the health care organizations in order to generate unique patient IDs effectively. Apart from this, it also supports different kinds of images, electronic signatures and crystal report.