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Business Rules

Patient Identification

Patient identifier is required to uniquely identify a patient. Ontario health card number should be provided when available. Submitting organization issued medical record number may also be used. Implementers shall contact Ontario Health to obtain the system URL for submitting medical health number.

Provider Identification

Practitioner identifier is required to uniquely identify a practitioner. For data contribution, we expect contributors to provide some form of provider identifier under its own assigning authority.