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This implementation guide provides guidance for implementations supporting HL7 FHIR® to temporarily unblock privacy consent directives from select Ontario Health Provincial assets. It includes business context, use cases and business rules for using the Provincial Consent Override (PCOI) interface., as well as FHIR profile structure definitions (XML and JSON), operations, examples (XML and JSON), terminologies, identifiers, and conformance requirements for invoking Consent Overrides using HL7 FHIR®. 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. |
The intended audiences of this document are business and technical implementers who are interested in invoking consent override for select integrated provincial EHR assets.
The audience for this specification includes Ontario Health programs and Lines of Business (LOBs) authorized to integrate with the Provincial Consent Override Interface (PCOI) service. This includes technical and business audiences who will use it to develop implementations and to validate that they conform to the specifications and to the requirements of partner organizations.
Readers are expected to understand the business context of patient privacy consent directives within the provincial EHR, consent overrides as allowed by provincial legislation and regulations. Readers of the technical content should have an understanding of the fundamentals of HL7 FHIR R4 and the RESTful paradigm.