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Health Identity
Information about the National Health Index (NHI), Health Provider Index (HPI), Medical Warning System (MWS) and NES.
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National Health Index
The National Health Index (NHI) is a mechanism for uniquely identifying every health care user.
Medical Warning System Statement of Use
The Medical Warning System (MWS) is used to warn health providers of any known risks to patients.
Health Provider Index
The HPI is a database of health practitioners, facilities and organisations that either fund or deliver health and/or disability services.
Information for Health Providers
Best practice guidance for anyone using identity services.
Information for IT vendors and developers
Information for developers about integration to the Health Identity Platform (HIP) web services.
Access to Production Systems
Information about getting access to production services.
Addressing and geocoding
Providing information for health providers and IT developers.
Ethnicity
Best practice for providing ethnicity data to the national collections
System outages
Up to date messaging on outages to our Health Identity systems.
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