Ontario Provincial Consent Override Interface HL7® FHIR® Implementation Guide v1.0.0-draft1
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| Term/Acronym/Abbreviation | Description |
|---|---|
| Acute and Community Clinical Data Repository (acCDR) | A repository used for sharing clinically relevant digital health record information not currently shared through laboratory, medication, or diagnostic imaging repositories. |
| Application Programming Interface (API) | A set of standard software interrupts, calls, functions, and data formats that can be used by an application program to access network services, devices, applications, or operating systems. |
| American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) | The provincial consent management solution enables the uniform enforcement of privacy directives for all digital health services transactions. If a consent directive blocking a specific provider's access to a client's information is declared, integration with CMTA allows this directive to be enforced across all identities a provider may be using to access the provincial digital health record. |
| Consent Management Technology Asset (CMTA) | A character encoding standard for electronic communication. |
| Context Management System (CMS) | Allows digital health applications, such as EMR systems or Clinical Viewers, to set and retrieve patient context information for an established user session. (CMS IG) |
| College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) | The regulatory college for medical doctors in Ontario, Canada. |
| Date of Birth (DOB) | Refers to the year, month, and day a patient was born. |
| Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) | A repository containing records of Primary Health Information such as drug and prescription information from publicly funded drug programs, pharmacy services, and monitored drugs programs. |
| Digital Health Information Exchange (DHIEX) | Ontario’s PHIPA-based framework for enabling digital health assets to work together safely, securely, and consistently across Ontario’s health care systems. |
| Digital Health Asset | A product or service that is selected, developed, or used by a HIC and enables the custodian to use electronic means to collect, use, modify, disclose, transmit, retain, or dispose of PHI to provide care or assist in care. |
| Electronic Health Record (EHR) | Computer-based clinical data for an individual across multiple locations. This longitudinal health record includes data from interoperable EMRs and EPRs and is shared across multiple jurisdictions. |
| Electronic Medical Record (EMR) | An electronic version of the paper health record. An EMR system can be used by one or more HICs in a primary care or community-based setting to collect or use PHI for the provision of care. |
| HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) | A standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically that defines a set of resources representing granular clinical concepts. |
| Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) | An act that provides a right of access to records held by public bodies and regulates how public bodies manage personal information. |
| Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) | A Microsoft term for a number generated to create a unique identity for each entity. |
| Health Card Number (HCN) | A number assigned to every individual eligible to receive provincial health care services under the provincial or territorial health insurance plan. |
| Health-Care Practitioner | A person who is a member under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 who provides health care. |
| Health-Care Provider | An individual or organization with Health Information Custodian or non-Health Information Custodian designation. |
| Health Information Custodian (HIC) | A person or organization that has custody or control of personal health information for the purpose of health care or other health-related duties. |
| Health Information Protection Act (HIPA) | An Act respecting the collection, storage, use, and disclosure of personal health information. |
| Health Information System (HIS) | Any system that captures, stores, manages, or transmits information related to health. |
| Health Level Seven (HL7) | A set of international standards used to move clinical and administrative health data between applications. |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) | A communication protocol used to transfer information over the Internet. |
| Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) | The secure version of HTTP. |
| Implementation Guide (IG) | A specification explaining the proper use of a standard for a specific purpose. |
| Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) | An independent oversight body responsible for educating the public about privacy rights and ensuring compliance with privacy legislation. |
| Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | A standards development organization for the Internet. |
| JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) | A language-independent data-interchange format. |
| Line of Business (LOB) | Refers to different business units within Ontario Health. |
| Medical Record Number (MRN) | A unique number assigned by a facility to identify an actual or potential recipient of care. |
| Ministry of Health (MOH) | The Ontario government ministry responsible for overseeing the province’s healthcare system. |
| Object Identifier (OID) | A globally unique identifier mechanism standardized by ITU and ISO/IEC. |
| ONE Access Gateway (OAG) | A platform enabling secure integration with provincial clinical repositories and registries. |
| ONE ID | An identity and access management solution providing digital credentials and single sign-on capabilities. |
| Ontario Health (OH) | An agency created by the Government of Ontario to connect, coordinate, and modernize healthcare services. |
| Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) | Ontario’s provincial repository for laboratory reports. |
| Ontario Medical Imaging Clinical Data Repository (miCDR) | A provincial repository for diagnostic images and reports. |
| Open Authorization (OAuth) | An open standard for token-based authentication and authorization. |
| Personal Health Information (PHI) | Identifying information relating to an individual's health or healthcare. |
| Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) | Ontario’s health privacy legislation. |
| Personal Information (PI) | Information about an identifiable individual. |
| Point of Service (PoS) | A software application used for viewing or managing personal health information. |
| Prescribed Organization (PO) | The organization prescribed under PHIPA to develop and maintain the EHR. |
| Provincial Consent Override Interface (PCOI) | The mechanism through which consent override requests are captured and managed. |
| Provincial Provider Registry (PPR) | The authoritative source for provider and healthcare organization information in Ontario. |
| Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) | Technology, policies, and procedures supporting encryption and digital signatures. |
| Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) | A messaging pattern where publishers send messages and subscribers receive messages of interest. |
| Representational State Transfer (REST) | A style of software architecture for distributed systems. |
| Single-Page Application (SPA) | A web application that dynamically updates content without loading new pages. |
| Substitute Decision Maker (SDM) | An individual authorized to provide consent on behalf of another individual. |
| Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) | A sequence of characters that identifies a resource. |
| Unique Provider Identifier (UPI) | A unique identifier assigned to a healthcare provider. |
| Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) | A 128-bit identifier used to uniquely identify objects. |
| Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) | The global standard for timekeeping. |
| Version 3 (V3) | An HL7 reference information model used for building messages and CDA documents. |
| Extensible Markup Language (XML) | A markup language for describing and transporting data. |