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2.4. Business Rules

2.4.1. Patient Identification

Patient identifier is required to uniquely identify a patient. Ontario health card number should be provided when available.

2.4.2. Practitioner Identification

Practitioner identifier is required to uniquely identify a practitioner. The practitioner’s license number or registration number issued by the regulatory college shall be provided as part of the Practitioner resource when that resource is present.

2.4.3. Organization Identification

Organization identifier is required to uniquely identify an organization. The organization's identifier shall be the Provincial Provider Registry Unique Provider Identifier (UPI) and will be provided by Ontario Health at the time of implementation.

2.4.4. Performing a Consent Override

2.4.4.1. Consent Override for all LOBs

The only permissible reasons for override are:

• Express consent of Patient
• Express consent of Substitute Decision Maker (SDM)

The following data elements will be captured about the SDM:

• SDM first and last names
• SDM relationship type