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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.
Healthcare Events
Healthcare Events are summaries of hospital admission events reported to the National Minimum Dataset,
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
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About Book My Vaccine: Information for providers
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Cyber Hub
Data and statistics
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Emergency management
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Family violence and sexual violence
Female Pelvic Mesh Service
Genetic Health Service NZ
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Guidance on burial, cremation and death documents
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Healthy Active Learning
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Immunisation
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Infrastructure and Investment
Māori health
Maternity
Mental Health and Addiction
National Bowel Screening Programme
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Nationwide Service Framework Library
National Stroke Clot Retrieval Service Improvement Programme
Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme
Nutrition
Organ donation and transplantation
Pacific Health
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Primary Care Development Programme
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Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
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