The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has conceded there
have been errors in its Individual Healthcare Identifiers (IHI) service,
following claims by industry that the service is flawed.
In a senate hearing into the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) Bill 2011, NEHTA chief executive, Peter Fleming, admitted there were occasional instances which produced duplicate identifiers.
"Very occasionally, there is the instance of having two numbers,”
Fleming said. "Medicare has a process for identifying that, rectifying
it with the individual involved and I stress that is only caused by an
occasional manual error.
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