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Business Model

Context

The Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) is a provincial source of personal health information, specifically, drug and pharmacy service information. The DHDR currently includes drug and pharmacy service information contributed from the Ministry of Health’s Health Network System (HNS) and is being expanded to include additional personal health information from two new contributing sources – dispensed drug and pharmacy service information from community pharmacies and administered drug information from hospitals.

The DHDR solution includes:

  • Data repository of drug and pharmacy service information submitted to the DHDR
  • APIs that allow community pharmacy management systems and the Ministry of Health’s Health Network System to contribute dispensed drug and pharmacy service information to the DHDR and an API that allows hospital information systems to contribute administered drug information to the DHDR
  • Validation of patient (client) and provider information using provincial registries
  • Validation and augmentation of drug information using Canada Health Infoway’s Canadian Clinical Drug Database (CCDD) and Health Canada’s Drug Product Database (DPDB) and Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD)
  • A data quality solution and services to support conformance, clinical validation, and data quality maintenance activities by Ontario Health and DHDR contributor HICs
  • APIs that allow applications and systems (e.g., provincial viewers, electronic medical record systems, hospital information systems) to query and display administered drug, dispensed drug, and pharmacy service information to authorized viewing HICs and patients
  • Integration with the ONE Access Gateway (OAG) for DHDR queries: provider OAG for health care practitioner applications, consumer OAG for patient consumer applications
  • Integration with Ontario Health’s Consent Management Technology Asset (CMTA) and Provincial Consent Override Interface (PCOI) for consent management purposes
  • Integration with COVax API to send COVID-19 vaccination information with DHDR information in response to DHDR query. COVaxON is the ministry's provincial solution for COVID-19 vaccination information.

Model

businessModelCombined DHDR Solution for contribution and provider query