Challenge UW Medicine was working toward establishing a unique Epic Enterprise identifier for each patient within the full health system. Achieving that goal required moving Northwest Hospital, a nationally-recognized 281-bed community hospital, onto the same Epic registration system in place at its flagship facilities, UW Medical Center and Harborview. During the planning stages, it was determined that a cleanup of the Epic master patient index (MPI) was necessary to remove any duplicate medical records and avoid damaging the integrity of the merged databases. Northwest Hospital “was basically taking all of its patient medical record numbers and loading them into our MPI,” said Sally Beahan, RHIA, MHA, Director of Health Information Management (HIM) for UW Medicine. “We need

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