New Zealand OID Registry

The HL7 New Zealand OID (top below)  is a child OID of the HL7 international OID root. 

Please contact us to register an additional New Zealand OID.


OID Purpose Description
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.1 Reserved
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.2 NHI The National Health Identifier is a unique identifier for each person in New Zealand
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.3 HPI The Health Practitioner Index is a unique identifier for health providers associated facilities and organisations in New Zealand.
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.3.1  HPI-CPN  
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.3.2  HPI-Facility  
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.3.3  HPI-Organisation  
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.4 Pharmac Pharmac drug codes
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.5 NZ Read codes These are an adaptation of the UK Read coding system for diagnoses
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.6 MIMS Drug codes Refers to drugs coded using the MIMS coding system - http://www.mims.co.nz/
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.7 Template root The root node for NZ CDA templates
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.7.1 Dispensing template The CDA template used to hold dispensing information
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.7.1.1 Medication section represents a section within the dispensing CDA that holds the medications
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.8 HISAC The root node for HISAC Standards
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.9 Pharmacy Guild identifiers Refers to the identifiers issues by the pharmacy guilt to pharmacists
2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.10 HealthPac claimant numbers Refers to the identifiers issues by healthpac to claimants such as pharmacies                
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.10.1  Auckland eclair repository  Refers to the Auckland regional instance of the eclair repository
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.11  root for code tables      The specific code tables used for values in NZ
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18.11.1  Ethnicity      Ethnicity codes (99NZETH - ethnicity)
 2.16.840.1.113883.2.7.2  GP2GP document
 The New Zealand 'GP2GP' document. This is a specification for transfer of clincial notes from one Gp system to amother. This OID will be the templaetId for the document as a whole, and the 'root' element for other OID's assigned under that project.  The following link will display the OID's specific to this project GP2GP OIDS

Other Relevant OIDs
OID Purpose Description
2.16.840.1.113883.6.1 LOINC
2.16.840.1.113883.6.96 SNOMED CT



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