Namespace value

http://ns.electronichealth.net.au/id/hi/ihi/1.0

Type

identifiers namespace

Description

This namespace is used for qualified identifiers to represent Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) numbers.

An example of the syntax of an IHI represented as a qualified identifer using this namespace is: http://ns.electronichealth.net.au/id/hi/ihi/1.0/800360yyyyyyyyyz where:

  • yyyyyyyyy is issued by the system operator
  • z is the check digit derived using ISO/IEC 7812 across the 15-digit number