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This document serves as a technical specification for implementing HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) messages in order to interact with Ontario’s Digital Health Drug Repository and Web Services (DHDR) solution. Sufficient business rationale is provided to illustrate the scenarios that the specification aims to fulfill. Storyboards, interactions, message types, vocabulary, data types, object identifiers, and FHIR message examples are included to facilitate the implementation process.
Applying the DHDR Patient Access HL7 FHIR IG
Ontario Health will be establishing the DHDR Patient Access HL7 FHIR IG as an interoperability specification under Ontario’s Digital Health Information Exchange (DHIEX) framework.
The following information is provided in accordance with O. Reg. 329/04 under Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), 2004, section 28 Application of Specifications.
| Date on which the specification becomes effective: | TBD |
| Name, description, or class of Health Information Custodians that must select, develop, or use digital health assets that comply with the specification: | - All HICs as per Section 3 of PHIPA who offer to patients access to a portal or viewer which queries DHDR. |
| Types of digital health assets to which the specification applies: | Applications and/or systems which query DHDR such as electronic medical record systems and HISs. |
| Circumstances, if any, when a Health Information Custodian may be exempted from the requirement to select, develop or use digital health assets that comply with the specification: | N/A |