Automatic Identification and Data Capture for Patient Identification
AIDC for Patient Identification defines how to encode NHS approved patient identifiers into a two-dimensional barcode
About this standard
- Owner
- NHS Digital
- Status
- Active
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- Standard type
- Record standards
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Record standards define what information to collect and how to format it, for example when registering a new patient.
Data definitions and terminologies define the format of individual data items so they can be consistently represented, for example dates or medication names. Reference sets and controlled lists are also included.
Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
Information codes of practice are legal or best practice guidelines on how information should be handled.
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Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Care setting
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Patient
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
This standard needs to be reviewed and implemented alongside DAPB0108: Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
- Related standards
- ISB 0099 Patient Identifiers for Identity Bands
- ISB 0149 NHS Number Standard Specification
- ISB 1555 Birth Notifications
- DCB0129 Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems
- DCB0160 Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems
- ISBT 128 Identification, labelling and information processing of human blood, tissue and organ products
- ISO/IEC 15415 Information technology; automatic identification and data capture techniques; barcode print quality test specification; two-dimensional symbols
- ISO/IEC 15426-2 Information technology; automatic identification and data capture techniques; barcode verifier conformance specification - Part 2: Two-dimensional symbols
- ISO/IEC 16022 Information technology; automatic identification and data capture techniques; Data Matrix barcode symbology specification
Assurance and endorsements
- Reference code for standards issued as requirements in England
- DCB1077
- Quality assurance
This standard has been approved by the Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB) and published as an information standard notice (ISN)
- Endorsements
- Not applicable
Page last updated: 22 November 2022