Paper documents are no longer generated during the admissions process. Instead, information is scanned and stored electronically into the hospital information system. Each patient receiving services at an Intermountain Health Care facility is assigned a unique patient identifier (an EMMI number for enterprise master member index). The EMMI number identifies a single patient throughout the enterprise at any of IHC's hospitals, InstaCares, or clinics. The unique IHC EMMI number and the site-specific accession number, along with other patient demographics, are sent to the PACS broker and used to validate studies as they arrive in the PACS from the modalities.

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"The EMMI and accession numbers are an important part of IHC's regional PACS approach, as they provide important database keys that uniquely identify patients within our regional and enterprise PACS systems." -- Darin Day, PACS Administrator