# Identifying professionals

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|Version|2025-07-04|
|Status|draft|

## Introduction
This techincal agreements descibes how professionals should be identified in the context of data exchanges.

## Agreements

### Decision 1
Professionals are identfied using local employee number

### Rationale
1. All professionals have a local employee number
2. A national healthcare professional number ("zorgverlener-id") is not yet available for all professionals

### Decision 2
When a Dezi-number is available, that number is used for identification.

### Rationale
1. A national number makes it easeier to cross-organizationally identify professionals.