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Identifier—identifier status, Individual Healthcare Identifier number status code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termIndividual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) number status
Synonymous names:Help on this termIHI number status
METEOR identifier:Help on this term743466
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Definition:Help on this term

An identifier to describe the status of the Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) number.

Data Element Concept:Identifier—identifier status

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Active
2Deceased
3Retired
4Expired
5Resolved
Supplementary values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
9Not stated / inadequately described

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

The number status includes:

CODE 1       Active

Use for IHI numbers attached to a Verified, Unverified or Provisional IHI record where a date of death is not present, where the recorded age is < 130 years, and which is not expired.

CODE 2       Deceased

Use for IHI numbers attached to a Verified, Unverified or Provisional IHI record where a date of death is present, but which has not yet been matched with Fact of Death Data (FoDD) from Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries, and where the recorded age is < 130 years.

For Provisional records only, the record should have < 90 days of no activity. 

CODE 3       Retired

Use for IHI numbers attached to a Verified or Unverified IHI record where a date of death is present and either (a) the record has been matched with Fact of Death Data (FoDD) from Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries and has had no activity for 90 days, or (b) the age recorded is ≥ 130 years (Verified IHI records only).

CODE 4       Expired

Use for IHI numbers attached to either (a) a Provisional IHI record where there has been no activity on the record for 90 days, or (b) an Unverified IHI record where the age recorded is ≥ 130 years.

CODE 5       Resolved

Use for IHI numbers attached to a Verified, Unverified or Provisional IHI record which is linked with another record as part of resolving a provisional record or resolving a duplicate record and end dated as part of the replica resolution process.

Comments:Help on this term

Verified, Unverified and Provisional IHI record status are defined in Individual Healthcare Identifier record status, code N. 

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA)

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

To be reported when the Person—Individual Healthcare Identifier, N16 (IHI Number) is reported.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority 

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Identifier—record status, Individual Healthcare Identifier record status code N
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
See also Person—Individual Healthcare Identifier, N(16)
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Individual Healthcare Identifier NBEDS 2022-23
Health, Standard 20/10/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2022

Implementation end date: 30/06/2023

Conditional obligation:

This data element is only to be reported if the Person—Individual Healthcare Identifier, N(16) is reported.


Individual Healthcare Identifier NBEDS 2023-24
Health, Recorded 09/08/2022

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2023

Implementation end date: 30/06/2024

Conditional obligation:

This data element is only to be reported if the Person—Individual Healthcare Identifier, N(16) is reported.


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