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Intended Audience

The audience for this specification includes eHealth Ontario programs and any other organizations implementing the specifications contained in this guide. This includes technical and business audiences who will use it to develop implementations and to validate that they conform to the specifications and to the requirements of stakeholder organizations.

Readers are expected to understand the business context of how an enterprise master patient index (EMPI) is used to support patient discovery and registration, health data exchange, the RESTful paradigm and have some basic understanding of HL7 FHIR STU3 as well as IHE PIXm/PDQm implementations.

Table: Reference Materials

Artifact Location, Name of file
HL7 FHIR Release 3 (STU) http://hl7.org/fhir
IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework Supplement - Patient Identifier Cross-reference for Mobile (PIXm) Rev 1.4 Trial Implementation https://www.ihe.net/uploadedFiles/Documents/ITI/IHE_ITI_Suppl_PIXm.pdf