English

The Dutch Unique Healthcare Provider Identification Register (UZI-register), an organisation executed under liability of the Secretary for National Healthcare, issues healthcare providers with an electronic identity, in the form of a UZI-card, by which they can identify and authenticate themselves, by which they can guarantee the confidentiality of the communication and by which they can enter an electronic signature.

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. In the light of these questions, the UZI-register elects to use an appropriate model for cards which addresses these concerns.
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). 

English documentation
Our organisation has translated a limited number of our documentation which is published on this website. In case of any additional questions you can contact us at info@uzi-register.nl.

UZI-brochure English 2006 (pdf 171kB)

Health ID 2006 (pdf 264kB)

Applicable standards 1.1 02-05-2005 (pdf 97kB)

Final Report 19-01-2005 (pdf 180kB)