# Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/healthcare-identifiers-service/  
**Provider:** Australian Digital Health Agency — https://apis.io/providers/australian-digital-health-agency/  
**Documentation:** https://implementer.digitalhealth.gov.au/resources/services/healthcare-identifiers-service-hi

Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service is one of 6 APIs that [Australian Digital Health Agency](https://apis.io/providers/australian-digital-health-agency/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identifiers, Healthcare, and Directory. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The national Healthcare Identifiers Service, providing unique identifiers for individuals (IHI), healthcare providers (HPI-I) and organisations (HPI-O) that underpin My Health Record, electronic prescribing and secure messaging. Access is authenticated with NASH PKI certificates.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://implementer.digitalhealth.gov.au/resources/services/healthcare-identifiers-service-hi

## Other Australian Digital Health Agency APIs (5)

- [My Health Record FHIR Gateway (B2B)](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/my-health-record-fhir-gateway/)
- [My Health Record FHIR Mobile Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/my-health-record-fhir-mobile-gateway/)
- [NCTS FHIR Terminology Server](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/ncts-fhir-terminology-server/)
- [NCTS National Syndication Server](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/ncts-syndication-server/)
- [Electronic Prescribing](https://apis.io/apis/australian-digital-health-agency/electronic-prescribing/)

## Tags

Identifiers, Healthcare, Directory

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