title: The Israel National Hospital Discharge Register: an essential component of data driven healthcare.
abstract: The Israel National Hospital Discharge Register (INHDR) is an essential section of healthcare data. It includes record for each admission to hospital wards during the last twenty years, and the data are increasing by digitally updated information from hospitals on continually a monthly or quarterly basis. The register contains encrypted patient identity number, admission number, demographic and geographic data, hospitalization data, diagnoses, procedures and accounting data. The goal of the register is to measure medical and surgical services in hospitals, to compare hospital activity among regions, gender and age and population groups within the country and among other countries, to analyse the difference between periods. This large-scale hospital data helps in planning of the hospital services, analysing the health status of the population, disease and injury surveillance, and helps in performance of quality indicators. It assists decision makers at the Ministry of Health (MOH) in their daily and on-going missions.
authors.affiliation: Health Information Division, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Ziona
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Haklai
authors.affiliation: Health Information Division, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Dmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mostovoy
authors.affiliation: Health Information Division, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Ethel-Sherry
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: Health Information Division, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Jean Chaim
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Karger
authors.affiliation: Healsis Medical Technologies, Herzelia, Israel.
authors.forename: Assa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reichert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012042:Registries