Intended Audience

The intended audiences of this document are business and technical implementers who are interested in accessing information from the VPP Community ODS. The readers are expected to have an understanding of the business and technical requirements for querying and receiving information.

The audience for this specification includes CareConnect, informatics users 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 provider information, the RESTful paradigm and have some basic understanding of HL7 FHIR v4.