Access to Information (A2i)

A2i-HIDs is the technical service that connects, captures and delivers information to health and social care system users.

In response to the COVID Pandemic, the HSE rapidly mobilised and redirected many of its ICT/eHealth resources to support the delivery of services.

Healthlink's core brief is to provide a messaging service that allows patient information to be securely transferred between primary and secondary care health systems.

Healthmail has been in operation since 2014 with the original purpose of providing safe email communication between GPs and hospitals.

HPP harnesses the programming capability and technical expertise of the A2i-HIDs team in the designing and employing of a number of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to search, capture and exchange data.

IHI is the number that is used to safely identify an individual using a health service in Ireland and their health information.

Health Directory is a technical infrastructure which stores, maintains and publishes current, up-to-date, quality assured and verified standard codes and identifiers and geocodes for health-related entities.