Mergers, MPIs, Oh My! What happens to master patient indexes when health care organizations meld into one?
August 
2019
Mergers, MPIs, Oh My!
By Sarah Elkins
For The Record
Vol. 31 No. 7 P. 10
What happens to master patient indexes when health care organizations meld into one?
For the past decade, hospital mergers and acquisitions have been on a steady incline. In 2017, it was another record-breaking year, continuing a trend that’s been ongoing over the past decade. There were fewer mergers in total in 2018, but the size of those mergers was larger, making it the year of the “megamerger.”
