Master Veteran Index (MVI) Service

The authoritative source for person identity data. Maintains identity data for persons across VA systems. Provides a unique universal identifier for each person. Stores identity data as correlations for each system where a person is known. Provides a probabilistic matching algorithm. (Includes MPI, PSIM, and IdM TK) Maintains a gold copy known as a Primary View of the persons identity data. Broadcasts identity trait updates to systems of interest. Maintains a record locator service.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel restricted public
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dataQuality true
identifier 64b048b3-e55e-49ce-b86f-615a47451b2c
issued 2018-02-23
landingPage https://www.data.va.gov/d/c7db-tep2
license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2022-03-22
programCode {029:000}
publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
resource-type Dataset
rights Protected by Privacy Act and/or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • access
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • identity
  • national
  • north-america
  • security
  • united-states
isopen True
license_id cc-zero
license_title Creative Commons CCZero
license_url http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-zero
maintainer Jeff Podolec
maintainer_email jeff.podolec@va.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T05:10:11.209652
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T05:10:11.209656
notes <p>The authoritative source for person identity data. Maintains identity data for persons across VA systems. Provides a unique universal identifier for each person. Stores identity data as correlations for each system where a person is known. Provides a probabilistic matching algorithm. (Includes MPI, PSIM, and IdM TK) Maintains a gold copy known as a Primary View of the persons identity data. Broadcasts identity trait updates to systems of interest. Maintains a record locator service.</p>
num_resources 1
num_tags 11
title Master Veteran Index (MVI) Service