Public Health Information System (PHIS)
Department of Health
2011 — re-launched.
To collate and summarise health-related data.
National — data on hospital discharges refer to public acute hospitals only.
The Public Health Information System (PHIS) is a collection of tables of health-related data produced by the Department of Health.
PHIS contains tables on cancer; demography; fertility; hospital discharges; mortality and psychiatric admissions.
Data sources include the Central Statistics Office (CSO); Healthcare Pricing Office (HPO); Health Research Board (HRB); and the National Cancer Registry Ireland.
Data are requested from a wide range of sources including the CSO, HPO, HRB and National Cancer Registry. The data are formatted and categorised by the Statistics and Analytics Unit and loaded onto the PHIS database.
PHIS tables are updated as and when new data becomes available from the individual data sources.
Networked within Department of Health Headquarters in Hawkins House, Dublin
PHIS application on CD-ROM containing publicly available tables.
Extracts on CSO StatBank.
Extracts on the Health Well, managed by Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH).
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Mortality data is classified using the Eurostat 65 Cause of Death Shortlist. Morbidity data is classified using the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT) — Eurostat / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / WHO. (Version 2008-11-10) for diagnoses and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM) / Australian Classification of Health Interventions (ACHI) Procedure Shortlist for procedures.