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 | | A well-designed EMPI is an important element in managing the variation in patient identifiers that, obviously, occurs due to the vastly disparate systems utilized by different healthcare organizations. |
 | | The EMPI will successfully connect the various departments and facilities, belonging to a particular community network, confirming that if John Doe attends facility C, his previous visits to facility A and facility B are available, and acknowledged, immediately. |
 | | The EMPI will be the one, centralized database that will hold the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date information possible for every single arm, leg, and satellite of the functioning community network. |
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