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The Dutch Unique Healthcare Provider Identification Register (known by its Dutch acronym of ‘UZI Register’) provides healthcare providers with a unique and personal electronic identity: the UZI Card, a kind of electronic passport for healthcare professionals.
With this UZI-card they can:
- identify and authenticate themselves,
- guarantee the confidentiality of the communication,
- enter an electronic signature.
The UZI Register processes applications, produces the UZI Cards, and issues them.
The aim of the UZI-card is to uniquely identify and authenticate healthcare providers. The questions: ‘Who is the card holder?' and ‘What is the card holder?' are the most important issues.
The first question relates to the actual person who holds the card. The UZI-card offers certainty about the identity of the card holder.
The second question relates to the status of the card holder as a healthcare provider. The UZI-card provides a clear answer to the question of whether the card holder is a healthcare practitioner and whether he is working on behalf of a healthcare institution.
The UZI-card and its services are based upon the so called ‘trust model', a model based upon the hierarchy of the national government PKI. The UZI-register is to be considered as a Certification Service Provider (CSP).
The UZI Register is part of the CIBG, an executive agency of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS).
In case of any additional questions you can contact us at info@uzi-register.nl or by phone at +31 (0)70 340 6020.
