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Glossary
| Term/Acronym/Abbreviation | Description |
|---|---|
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| DARC | Dates Affecting Readiness to Consult |
| DART | Dates Affecting Readiness to Treat |
| DHIEX | Digital Health Information Exchange |
| DOB | Date of Birth |
| Digital health asset | Means “digital health asset” as defined in O. Reg. 329/04. |
| DSTU | Draft Standard for Trial Use |
| EHR or Electronic Health Record | Electronic Health Record |
| EMR | Electronic Medical Record |
| ER | Emergency Room |
| FHIR | HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Standard |
| FIPPA | Means the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, RSO 1990, c F.31, and its regulations, as amended or replaced from time to time |
| HCN | Means “health number” as defined in PHIPA |
| Health care practitioner | Means “health care practitioner” as defined in PHIPA |
| Healthcare Provider | An individual or organization with HIC or non-HIC designation. |
| HIC or health information custodian | Means “health information custodian” as defined in PHIPA |
| HIS | Hospital Information System |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | HTTP connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IG | Implementation Guide |
| Interoperability specification | Means “interoperability specification” as defined in O. Reg. 329/04 |
| IPC | Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario |
| LHIN | Local Health Integration Network |
| Minister | Minister of Health |
| MOH | Ministry of Health |
| MRN | Medical Record Number |
| NHS | National Health and social care System |
| NP | Nurse Practitioner |
| OH | Ontario Health |
| OID | Object Identifier |
| O. Reg. 329/04 | General, Ontario Regulation 329/04 made under PHIPA |
| OT | Occupational Therapy |
| PCP | Primary Care Provider |
| PCR | Provincial Client Registry |
| PHI or Personal Health Information | Means “personal health information” as defined in PHIPA |
| PHIPA | the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 |
| PI or Personal Information | Means “personal information” as defined in FIPPA |
| PO or Prescribed Organization | Means “prescribed organization” as defined in PHIPA |
| 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 |