Health Directory

The HSE Health Directory is a technical infrastructure which stores, maintains and publishes standard codes and identifiers for health-related entities such as sites/locations and practitioners, services and organisations.

Purpose: The Health Directory is the basis for the provision of identifiers for Health Service Providers - Practitioners, Locations, People and Organisations. The technical infrastructure for the planned Health Directory is currently in development.

Coverage: National.

Data collection began in 2016 and is ongoing.

Data and Resources

This dataset has no data

Additional Info

Field Value
Contact points
Contact point 1
URI
Name
HSE Health Identifiers Service
Email
data@hse-health-identifie.ie
Identifier
Publisher
Publisher 1
URI
Name
HSE Health Identifiers Service
Email
URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
Identifier
Creator
Homepage
Landing page
Release date January 1, 2011
Modification date September 22, 2024
Version
Version notes
Identifier NDC-0037
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/QUARTERLY
Provenance

Daily demographic feeds from the Department of Social Protection.
Type
Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2011
End
March 22, 2025
Temporal resolution
Spatial coverage
Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
Label
Ireland
Geometry
Bounding Box
Centroid
Spatial resolution in meters
Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/RESTRICTED
Other identifier
Theme
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
Documentation
Conforms to
Is referenced by
Analytics
Applicable legislation
Has version
Code values
Coding system
Purpose
Health category
  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
  2. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/ehr
Health theme
  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/epidemiology
Legal basis
Minimum typical age 15
Maximum typical age 85
Number of records 718497
Number of records for unique individuals. 419181
Personal data
Publisher note
Publisher type
Trusted Data Holder
Population coverage
Retention period
Health data access body
Qualified relation
Provenance Activity
URI
Qualified Attribution
Quality annotations