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Acronyms and Abbreviations
| Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| DOB | Date of Birth |
| DSTU | Draft Standard for Trial Use |
| EHR | Electronic Health Record |
| EMR | Electronic Medical Record |
| ER | Emergency Room |
| FHIR | HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Standard |
| HCN | Provincial Health Card Number |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | HTTP connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IG | Implementation Guide |
| LHIN | Local Health Integration Network |
| MOH | Ministry of Health |
| MRN | Medical Record Number |
| NHS | National Health and social care System |
| NP | Nurse Practitioner |
| OID | Object Identifier |
| OT | Occupational Therapy |
| PCP | Primary Care Provider |
| PCR | Provincial Client Registry |
| PHI | Personal Health Information |
| PI | Personal Information |
| POS | Point of Service Application or System |
| PPR | Provincial Provider Registry |
| PSD | Provincial Service Directory |
| Pub/Sub | Publish/subscribe is a messaging pattern where senders of messages, called publishers, do not program the messages to be sent directly to specific receivers, called subscribers, but instead categorize published messages into classes without knowledge of which subscribers, if any, there may be. Similarly, subscribers express interest in one or more classes and only receive messages that are of interest, without knowledge of which publishers, if any, there are. |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| RFI | Request for Information |
| RMS | Referral Management System: an electronic referral system that mediates the referral process on behalf of the Referral source and referral target, e.g., send referral, receive referral, update referrals. It also assists in managing information of referrals for all the healthcare services that it provides. |
| RHP | Regulated Healthcare Provider |
| RPDB | Ontario Registered Persons Database |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| THOR | Transaction HistOry Registry, a central storage to keep province-wide transactional logs |