Person and provider identification in healthcare

This document provides a standard for the healthcare industry on Healthcare Provider and Client Identifiers and Identification processes for clinical and administrative data management purposes. This includes processes for clinical and administrative data management purposes (data structure, process and specification).

The objective of this standard is to identify the functionality required to meet the demands of a healthcare environment that is interoperable and electronic health record-enabled. The structures and practices identified in this standard have been developed to support workflow in the clinical and administrative environments of healthcare.

Main sections:

· Data elements – general

· Identifiers

· Individual name

· Individual additional demographic data

· Address group

· Electronic address group

· Healthcare provider qualification and registration

· Healthcare provider organisation

· Biometric identifiers

· Conformance requirements