NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICE
National Health Index
Information for Users of the NHI
The following pages are specifically written for health and disability support services that use the NHI. They provide educational and technical information for users.
- Problems with NHI numbers
- How to search
- Manual matching
- Linking duplicate NHI numbers
- The ‘Do Not Link’ table
- NHI validation routine
- NHI application program interfaces and security
- Pre-allocated NHI numbers
- Ethnicity
- Ethnicity data protocols for the health and disability sector
- Training package for the ethnicity data protocols.
- Technical specifications

