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Glossary of Terms, Acronyms, and Abbreviations

Term/Acronym/Abbreviation Description
Administration record A record of an administered drug
API Application Program Interface
CMTA Consent Management Technology Asset
CCDD The Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD) is the drug terminology for use in digital health solutions such as electronic prescribing in Canada
Content validation Validation to confirm that the content in the record meets the classification, business, and codification rules (e.g. gender values, dispense date rules, Drug Identification Number/Product Identification Number).
COVaxON Ministry’s provincial solution for COVID-19 vaccination information
CPSO College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
DQS The DHDR Data Quality Solution, which is part of the DHDR Solution, enables authorized OH and data contributor personnel to review DHDR records submitted by data contributors to support the conformance, clinical validation, and ongoing data quality analysis of submitted records.
DHDR Digital Health Drug Repository
DIN Drug Identification Numbers
Dispense record A record of a dispensed drug or pharmacy service
DOB Date of Birth
DPD The Drug Product Database (DPD), which is maintained by Health Canada. Drugs in the DPD can be identified by a Drug Identification Number (DIN).
ECID Enterprise Client Identifier
EHR Electronic Health Record
EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Index
Error Annotation Annotation generated when a validation rule determined that data is incorrect or invalid in some way, therefore the dispense event is invalid for disclosure to clinicians (e.g., record is missing a required data element).
FHIR Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
HCN Health Card Number
HIC Health Information Custodian
HIS Hospital Information System
HL7 Health Level Seven
HNS Health Network System
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
Informational Annotation An informational message has been generated during the validation process, however the dispense event is still valid for disclosure to clinicians (e.g., Newborn DOB detected).
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
LNHPD The Licensed Natural Health Products Database contains information about natural health products that have been issued a product license by Health Canada.
MOH Ministry of Health
NMS Narcotics Monitoring System
MRN Medical Record Number: An identifier that uniquely identifies a patient and their records within a facility (e.g. hospital or community pharmacy). The MRN is typically visible to health care providers and the users of local information systems.
ODB Ontario Drug Benefit
OID Object Identifier
PCOI Provincial Consent Override Interface
PCR Provincial Client Registry
PIN Product Identification Numbers
PMS Pharmacy Management System
Point of Service system A software application used by health care or service providers for viewing or managing personal health information (PHI). Common PoS systems include, but are not limited to, provincial clinical viewers, HIS and primary care EMRs.
Referential validation Validation to confirm that the data aligns with external sources (e.g., validation of the patient demographics against PCR or performing a drug lookup against the Health Canada Drug Product Database).
Regex Regular Expression
SDM Substitute Decision Maker
Structural validation Validation to confirm that the record being submitted meet the technical rules of the message format (e.g., FIHR JSON/XML structure or HL7 v.2 and the presence of mandatory fields).
UPI Unique Provider Identifier number
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
UUID Universal Unique Identifier
Warning Annotation Annotation generated when a validation rule determined that a message should be considered or analyzed, however the dispense event is still valid for disclosure to clinicians (e.g., DoB has the day and month transposed).
XML Extensible Markup Language