Commercial vs Open-Source MPI: How to Choose
The commercial vs open-source choice for a Master Patient Index is rarely about features anymore. The strongest open-source MPI projects…
5 Patient Matching Tools That Handle Address Duplicates Right
Address-based duplicate detection is the part of patient matching that most tools claim to handle and that fewer actually get…
Best MPI Products for Multi-State Health Networks in 2026
Multi-state health networks put MPI products under unique pressure. The patient population spans multiple state-level identifier ecosystems, demographic data formats…
Top 5 Open-Source MPI Solutions for FHIR Stacks
Open-source MPI solutions give you full control over patient matching and zero licensing fees, at the price of your team…
Deterministic vs Probabilistic Patient Matching: A Practical Comparison
The deterministic vs probabilistic choice for patient matching is one of the foundational decisions in an MPI deployment. It shapes…
Best MPI Tools for Hospital Systems in 2026
Hospital systems put MPI tools under a different kind of pressure than smaller clinical deployments. The patient population is large,…
Top 7 Patient Matching Algorithms for Healthcare IT
Patient matching is the part of healthcare data infrastructure that most teams assume is solved and most teams quietly struggle…
Reading FHIR Validation Output Like a Checklist, Not a Wall of Text
There is a moment in FHIR integration work where a validator dumps forty issues in your lap and the whole…
When a Bundle Passes Locally but the Receiver Still Rejects It
There is a specific flavor of frustration in FHIR integration work: your Bundle passes every validator you can find, your…
Bundle Validation in CI: Catching Bad Payloads Before Production
The idea sounds obvious: run FHIR Bundle validation in continuous integration, and stop bad payloads from ever landing in a…