Overview
This business service is available to hospitals to record a newborn person in the Client Registry and assign a Personal Health Number (PHN), immediately upon the birth of the child.
Purpose
This business service is used to:
- assign a PHN to a baby born in a BC hospital,
- establish a relationship between the baby and its mother,
and
- ensure the Client Registry has a record of the child, thus ensuring that the PHN is available for any health care provider to record in their system, for unique client identification
.
Prerequisites
Access to this business service requires Ministry of Health Services approval and a signed Data Access Agreement (DAA), or Service Level Agreement (SLA), between the organization and the Ministry.
Supporting Documentation and Contact Information
This business service is available through the Ministry's web application. For more information, e-mail HLTH.HnetConnection@gov.bc.ca.
This business service is also available for integrated software development. For more information on integrated software development, review the Developing Applications page, or e-mail the the Software Support Organization Coordinator at
HLTH.HnetSSOSupport@gov.bc.ca.
The Ministry of Health HelpDesk is available at 250-952-1234.
