How does MFI know where to send data?
Imagine a bicycle wheel. Spokes reach in from the wheel rim to the center, or hub, connecting each part of the wheel rim to the center. MFI is a similar concept, with a centralized database (the hub – called MFI Integration Site) connected to each RPMS facility and receiving data daily from the site (see diagram 1.0 below). Each of the facilities you see linked to MFI will, in itself, also be linked to villages within their location. Thus, a village in the Fairbanks area will transmit data to Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center in Fairbanks. Then the data will be sent from Chief Andrew Issac to the MFI Integration Site. When MFI receives details of the patient visit it will check to see what other facilities that patient has visited and transmit the visit information to those sites. If the patient had also visited Bethel, then MFI would in turn transmit the data to Bethel. Data would NOT be sent on to Bristol Bay unless MFI showed that the patient had previously visited that facility also
