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Glossary of Terms, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
Term/Acronym/Abbreviation | Description |
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API | Application Programming Interface |
CCDD | Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set |
Consent Directive | Means “consent directive” as defined in Part V.1 of PHIPA. |
DHDR | Digital Health Drug Repository |
DHIEX | Digital Health Information Exchange |
DHIR | Digital Health Immunization Repository |
DICS | Diagnostic Imaging Common Services |
Digital health asset | Means “digital health asset” as defined in O. Reg. 329/04. |
DOB | Date of Birth |
EHR or Electronic Health Record | Means “electronic health record” as defined in Part V.1. of PHIPA. |
EMR | Electronic Medical Record |
ER | Emergency Room |
FHIR | HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Standard |
FIPPA | Means the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, RSO 1990, c F.31, and its regulations, as amended or replaced from time to time. |
HCN | Means “health number” as defined in PHIPA. |
Health care practitioner | Means “health care practitioner” as defined in PHIPA. |
HIC or health information custodian | Means “health information custodian” as defined in PHIPA. |
HIS | Hospital Information System |
HL7 | Health Level Seven |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPS | HTTP connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
IG | Implementation Guide |
Interoperability specification | Means “interoperability specification” as defined in O. Reg. 329/04. |
IPC | Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario |
ISO/TR | International Organization for Standardization/Technical Report |
LOINC | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes |
Minister | Minister of Health |
MOH | Ministry of Health |
MRN | Medical Record Number |
OH | Ontario Health |
OID | Object Identifier |
OLIS | Ontario Laboratories Information System |
O. Reg. 329/04 | General, Ontario Regulation 329/04 made under PHIPA. |
PCP | Primary Care Provider |
PCR | Provincial Client Registry |
PHI or Personal Health Information | Means “personal health information” as defined in PHIPA. |
PHIPA | Means the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, SO 2004, c 3, Sch A, as may be amended or replaced from time to time. |
PI or Personal Information | Means “personal information” as defined in FIPPA. |
PO or Prescribed Organization | Means “prescribed organization” as defined in PHIPA. |
PoS | Point of Service Application or System |
PPR | Provincial Provider Registry |
R4 | Release 4 of the HL7 FHIR standard |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
SNOMED-CT | Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
THOR | Transaction History Registry, a central storage to keep province-wide transactional logs |