Will healthcare organisations and providers also be issued with identifiers?
Yes. Healthcare providers and organisations will also be issued with unique healthcare identifiers. These unique identifiers will be known as: Healthcare Provider Identifiers – Individual (HPI-I) for healthcare professionals and other health personnel involved in patient care, and Healthcare Provider Identifiers – Organisation (HPI-O) that will identify the organisation (such as the hospital or health clinic) where care is provided. Identifiers for healthcare providers provide an additional layer of certainty to ensure that health information can be communicated accurately and efficiently. They reduce the chance that health information may be inadvertently sent to the wrong provider and they improve the flow of health information when this is needed to support timely decision making as part of healthcare. The HI Service will also be responsible for assigning identifiers for individual providers and organisations. More information on identifiers for healthcare providers is available in
