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Term/Acronym/Abbreviation Definition
API Application Programming Interface
CCDD Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set
CIS Clinical Information System
DHDR Digital Health Drug Repository
DHIEX Digital Health Information Exchange
DHIR Digital Health Immunization Repository
DI-CS Diagnostic Imaging Common Services
Digital health asset Means “digital health asset” as defined in O. Reg. 329/04.
DOB Date of Birth
EHR or Electronic Health Record Means “electronic health record” as defined in Part V.1. of PHIPA.
EMR Electronic Medical Record
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.
HIC or Health Information Custodian Means “health information custodian” as defined in PHIPA.
HIS Hospital Information System
HL7 Health Level Seven
HSP Health Service Provider
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
ISO/TR International Organization for Standardization /Technical Report
LOINC Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
MHA Mental Health and Addictions
MHA PDS Mental Health and Addictions Provincial Data Set
Minister Minister of Health
MOH Ministry of Health
MRN Medical Record Number
NHS National Health and social care System
NP Nurse Practitioner
OAuth Open Authorization - a standard used for access delegation granting access to interact with a website or application.
OH Ontario Health
OID Object Identifier
OLIS Ontario Laboratories Information System
ONE Access ONE Access Provider Gateway is a modernized platform for enabling the integration of provider facing applications* with provincial clinical repositories and registries in a secure and reliable manner.
OpenID An open standard and authentication protocol allowing users to be authenticated by using a third party identity provider service.
O. Reg. 329/04 General, Ontario Regulation 329/04 made under PHIPA.
PCP Primary Care Provider
PCR Provincial Client Registry
PE or Prescribed Entity Means an entity that is a prescribed entity for the purposes of subsection 45(1) of PHIPA.
PHI or Personal Health Information Means “personal health information” as defined in PHIPA.
PHIPA Means the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, SO 2004, c 3, Sch A, as may be amended or replaced from time to time.
PI or Personal Information Means “personal information” as defined in FIPPA.
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PO or Prescribed Organization Means “prescribed organization” as defined in PHIPA.
PoS Point of Service Application or System
PPR Provincial Provider Registry
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.
R4 Release 4 of the HL7 FHIR standard
REST Representational State Transfer
RHP Regulated Healthcare Provider
RPDB Ontario Registered Persons Database
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
SDOH Social Determinants of Health
SNOMED-CT Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine- Clinical Terms
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
THOR Transaction History Registry, a central storage to keep province-wide transactional logs