Ontario eForms HL7® FHIR® SDC Implementation Guide - v1.2.0 TU-snapshot1
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This Implementation Guide (IG) provides guidance, profiles, and supporting materials to enable consistent implementation of FHIR for this project. The guide is structured into the following sections:
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Home | Introduces the IG and provides general background information about the project. |
| Business Context | Provides an overview of the business model, relevant data (PHI), use cases, and business rules that this IG supports. |
| Technical Context | Describes the profiling methodology, mapping strategies, implementation guidance, and security considerations. Start here if you're planning on building an Implementation Guide. |
| FHIR Artifacts | Central location for all defined FHIR artifacts: profiles, extensions, value sets, data type profiles, operations, search parameters, and examples. |
| Change Log | Tracks specification changes, lists known issues, and provides a place to collect feedback from implementers and reviewers. |
This guide is written in alignment with policies established in conjunction with the Ontario Health privacy team to enable appropriate review and consideration of this specification by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC). This means aligning common industry terminology with that used in the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). To ensure readability and specificity, the industry standard terms will be retained and the legislative term or abbreviation will be included in brackets. For example:
NOTE: When using underlying FHIR resources that use these business terms, it is not possible for tooling reasons to provide the legislative terms as well. However, the legislative terms still apply in those situations.
The intended audiences of this document are the Health Information Custodians (HICs) and the vendors of the digital health assets as identified in the Scope section of this implementation guide.
The readers are expected to have an understanding of the fundamentals of HL7 FHIR Release 4 and the RESTful paradigm, as well as familiarity with the HL7 FHIR Structured Data Capture Implementation Guide.