• Health, Standard 05/10/2016

The Healthcare provider organisation cluster defines the data elements commonly used to identify organisations that provide healthcare. These are not individuals, and as such these organisations require their own names and identifiers, addresses and contact information. There are national identifiers of healthcare provider organisations, but also identifiers within jurisdictions and other organisations.

The scope of organisational identifiers in this cluster include:

• Healthcare Provider Identifier-Organisation (HPI-O): is a limited set of identifiers, for a specific use case limited by law. This section includes the use of HPI-Os and any organisation which provides a health service.
• Direct care suppliers including clinicians, hospitals, general practices, nursing organisations, Red Cross blood donors, ambulance services, pharmacies and aged care facilities.
• Other organisations including insurance providers, prosthetic device providers, government agencies (for example, agencies that organise disability permits), professional registration bodies (including medical colleges, academic bodies and other accreditation bodies for health professionals involved in direct care, and also indirect services such as health information managers), Primary Health Networks, training organisations and Medical Defence Organisations.

If required, this data element cluster can be used in conjunction with the following data element clusters:

• Address group cluster—to identify the address of the healthcare provider organisation
• Electronic address cluster—to identify the electronic communication details of the healthcare provider organisation
• Healthcare provider qualification and registration cluster—the Provider place of practice cluster contains additional data elements relating to the address.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Standards Australia 2014. AS 4846:2014 Person and provider identification in healthcare. Sydney: Standards Australia.