Ontario Clinical Report Exchange Implementation Guide v1.0.0 - Trial Use
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This Implementation Guide (IG) provides guidance, profiles, and supporting materials to enable consistent implementation of FHIR for this project. The guide is structured into the following sections:
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Home | Introduces the IG and provides general background information about the project. |
| Business Context | Provides an overview of the business model, relevant data, use cases, and business rules that this IG supports. |
| Technical Context | Describes the profiling methodology, mapping strategies, implementation guidance, and security considerations. Start here if you're planning on building an Implementation Guide. |
| FHIR Artifacts | Central location for all defined FHIR artifacts: profiles, extensions, value sets, data type profiles, operations, search parameters, and examples. |
| Change Log | Tracks specification changes, lists known issues, and provides a place to collect feedback from implementers and reviewers. |
This guide is intended for business and technical implementers of information systems submitting clinical reports to OCRE by Hospitals and Integrated Community Health Services Centres (ICHSC) and point of service systems receiving clinical reports from OH Pub/Sub Service.
Readers of the technical content should have an understanding of the fundamentals of HL7 FHIR, RESTful and Document paradigms, and of the business and technical requirements for submitting and receiving OCRE reports.