The Health Industry Number (HIN®) System
Everyone Needs an “Address” on the Information Highway.
The HIN, a unique ID for identifying all trading partners, is designed to serve that purpose.
The HIN was created by the healthcare industry as a universal identifier that would support the business needs of all trading partners in the supply chain during their electronic communications and transactions.
HIN® Identifies Locations & Services
As a nine-character alphanumeric identifier, HIN® offers extreme flexibility. It can identify not only individual healthcare facilities, but also specific locations and departments within them.
Today, HIN assignments support more than 3.5 million locations and services worldwide, representing brick-and-mortar sites as well as functional and legal entities delivering a scalable, reliable foundation for accurate identification across the healthcare supply chain.
The HIN System was designed to allow authorized licensees the ability to customize HIN use with their specific trading partners, while still maintaining standard formats the rest of the industry can recognize. By using the HIN System, each partner can quickly match information it receives to its own customer list whenever it shares or exchanges information with others. As a consequence, expensive and inefficient administrative cross-referencing tasks are eliminated.
By creating the HIN, HIBCC has created a system which simultaneously imposes the necessary rigidities of a centralized standard, while meeting the needs of individual users to alter components when necessary.
HIN Registration Is Easy
HIN is user-driven; the data originates from information supplied by health care locations and facilities. We then independently validate and maintain the HIN data to ensure the information is correct and up-to-date.
License the HIN System
The HIN System is currently comprised of two separate databases: Human Health and Animal Health, each of which is offered under a separate license.
Interested in becoming a HIN Licensee?
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