---
id: "ca_phin"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons", "medical"]
country: ["CA"]
langs: ["en", "fr"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ca_phin"
---

# Canadian personal health identification number (PHIN) (`ca_phin`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Personal health identification number (PHIN) of the health insurance plan of Manitoba: nine digits.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons), Medical/pharma identifiers (medical)
- Countries: Canada (CA)
- Languages: English (en), French (fr)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{9}$
```

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`
- purview: `Canada personal health identification number (PHIN)`

## Supported by tools

- `azureailanguage`
- `microsoftpurview`

## Sources

- doc: <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/sit-defn-canada-personal-health-identification-number>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: examples, negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ca_phin.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CA/persons/ca_phin.yaml>