The iWay Enterprise Master Patient Index

The iWay Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) creates a fully integrated delivery network for patient information across a wide array of disparate systems for patient registration, scheduling, clinical management, laboratory reporting, and more. Built on a robust foundation that includes the iWay Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Suite, this comprehensive repository makes it easier and more cost-effective to track and coordinate critical medical information across multiple boundaries and jurisdictions, including patient electronic health records (EHRs), immunizations, physicians and care providers, quality reporting indicators, prescriptions, laboratories, and electronic lab orders.

With the iWay EMPI, healthcare organizations can comply with the U.S. federal government’s directive to create an interoperable infrastructure that enables fast, secure, reliable exchange of electronic medical records across all levels of the healthcare landscape.  As a result, they can:

• Make better, evidence-based clinical decisions for diagnosis and treatment
• Decrease the cost of errors, inefficient care processes, or inappropriate treatments
• Enhance coordination between hospitals, laboratories, private practice offices, and other ambulatory care providers
• Promote competition and choice by making cost, quality, and outcome data available to the public
• Preserve the security of individually identifiable health information, and make it accessible to patients for non-medical purposes

Key Components

The iWay EMPI delivers a comprehensive framework for the handling, storage, access, and sharing of patient data and related medical information, and includes:

• A central website
• Healthcare information translation tools
• A master patient index (MPI)
• record locator service with intuitive search and identification capabilities
• A powerful authentication and authorization infrastructure
• Applications to aggregate information from multiple sources
• Secure messaging
• High capacity and ad hoc file transfers

EMPI combines several of iWay’s solutions to create an environment that enables unhindered exchange of complete, correct health information:

• iWay Data Profiler for viewing, monitoring, and comparing the attributes of enterprise information
• iWay Data Quality Center, which uses matching, de-duplication, linking/householding, merging, and other techniques to proactively preserve the integrity of patient information
• iWay Data Quality Portal for unparalleled control through state-of-the-art data governance
• iWay Integration Adapters, a market-leading suite of pre-packaged integration components
• iWay Service Manager, a unique Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that enables the creation, composition, and management of both web services and services invoked through alternate interfaces