Did you know….
The Health Identifiers Act 2014 was enacted by the government to allow two new national data collections–called the National Register of Individual Health Identifiers and the National Register of Health Service Provider Identifiers to be created and operated.
An Individual Health Identifier (IHI) has the following benefits for you:
Improved accuracy in identifying you and your medical records will
lead to safer and better care being provided to you.
Improved accuracy in identifying and associating your records in
different healthcare organisations.
Your health information can be shared safely and seamlessly
between health service providers, for example on referral letters
sent from a private GP to a public hospital.
The use of an Individual Health identifier also enables the
electronic transfer of your health information, which results in faster
care for you.
Medical or clinical information will NEVER be stored on your IHI record. Health
service providers may however use your IHI, to uniquely identify you, when
communicating with other health service providers about your care for example
when a medical consultant is corresponding with your GP or visa versa.
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