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Term/Acronym/Abbreviation | Definition |
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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 |