The obligation to use the national health identifier (INS), initially planned for 2020, comes into force in 2021. The INS is used by health professionals to assign health information to the person who holds it.
NSI is one of the core projects of the My Health 2022 digital shift roadmap.
The INS is an official digital identity that contains several types of information:
- the individual's personal 15-digit NIR (or the NIA, a provisional identification number given to a person who does not yet have a NIR)
- the patient's identity features: birth name, first name, sex, date of birth and official INSEE geographical code of the place of birth (already associated with the NIR/NIA in the national databases)
- the organization that assigned the INS, specified in the form of an OID (object identifier),
The INS was introduced by the law of January 26, 2016, which provided that the registration number in the physical person identification directory (known as the "NIR", more commonly known as the social security number) would, in the future, constitute the health identifier for people under care in the health and medico-social field.
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