Australian Healthcare Identifiers

Healthcare-specific identifiers for Australian health data protection under the My Health Records Act 2012 and Privacy Act 1988.

Jurisdictions
au
Regulations
privacy-act-1988, my-health-records-act-2012
Patterns
5

Patterns in this collection

Healthcare Provider Identifier - Individual

Detects Healthcare Provider Identifier - Individual (HPI-I) patterns. The HPI-I is a 16-digit number starting with the prefix 800361. No checksum validation.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Individual Healthcare Identifier

Detects Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) patterns. The IHI is a 16-digit number starting with the prefix 800360, validated with the Luhn algorithm.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

Australian Medicare Number

Detects Australian Medicare card numbers, which are issued to Australian citizens and permanent residents for access to subsidised healthcare under the Medicare system. The number consists of 10 digits: the first digit is between 2 and 6, followed by 8 additional digits and a single check digit. Numbers are commonly formatted as groups of 4-5-1 digits separated by spaces or hyphens.

Type
regex
Confidence
high

Medicare Provider Number

Detects Medicare Provider Number patterns. An 8-character code consisting of 6 digits, a location character, and a check character. Validated by location and check character sets.

Type
regex
Confidence
medium

PBS Prescriber Number

Detects PBS Prescriber Number patterns. A 7-digit number with check digit validation using weights [0,5,8,4,2,1], mod 11.

Type
regex
Confidence
low