Individual Health Identifier

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22 August 2016

Individual Patient Identifier live in Ireland

Every patient in Ireland has been assigned unique identifying number, in an effort to improve patient safety and data quality.
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3 February 2016

Ireland consults public on identifier

Ireland’s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar
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17 December 2015

Ireland races to implement health IT

Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its
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