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Business Rules

The following Business rules should be considered for implementation:Table: Business Rules

Business Rules #	Business Rule Description	FHIR® field /JWT token
UC1-101	The patient information provided in the query must be accurate according to the most recent Ontario Health Card	Patient.identifier
UC1-102	A query request should not contain both specimen.collected and issuedDate parameters.	specimen.collected or issued
UC1-103	When using End Date, End Date should be greater than the Start Date and should follow the equivalent parameter as in Start Date.	specimen.collected or issued
UC1-104	Any parameters chosen in the filtering criteria should not have a blank value.	All parameters
UC1-105	On encountering a Patient or Test Request level block; the following warning message must be populated along with the warning code 980: “Please note your personal health information is blocked by a consent directive that restricts health care providers from viewing this information. Please advise your delegated users if you do not want them to share this information with others.”	ServiceRequest.extension (Test Request Level Block) returns a boolean value ‘true’ when a Test Request level block is populated. Note: The consumer application will automatically receive the warning code and message from OLIS for a patient level block.
UC1-106	User Id should be unique to the consuming application and issuing organization. The issuing organization should ensure that the user is valid and logs maintained for traceability purposes.
UC1-107	User Full Name should contain a valid full name of the user accessing the system. This includes first, second and last name; also designation and suffix if applicable.
UC1-108	The Access User Type should contain the type of user accessing the consumer application for OLIS. The parameter should be populated with either ‘P’ or ‘D’. A user accessing their personal lab information in OLIS is represented by ‘P’ for Patient. A user granted access and authority by a patient to access the patient’s information in OLIS is considered a ‘Delegate User’ and is represented by ‘D’. Note: Consuming applications should have proper policies in place to maintain users.
UC1-109	The field lengths and requirements for data elements stated in the OLIS Interface Specification should be considered	All fields

Search Query UC1

Retrieves lab reports for a consumer based on selected criteria.Table: Search Criteria M = MandatoryO = OptionalMX = One of either issued or specimen.collected must be submitted. Each of the parameters support the submission of an open-ended time frame (start time only) or a closed timeframe (start and end).Y1 = Up to 100 codes may be submitted.Y2 = Up to 200 codes may be submitted.

OLIS interprets multiple values submitted in a single parameter to be logically OR’d.

Complex parameters are identified in the second row of the table. Refer to the previous pages for detailed definition of complex parameters.