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Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym Description
ADT Admission, Discharge, Transfer
CCO Cancer Care Ontario
CORPID Corporate Identifier
DefID Definitional Identifier
DefSrc Definitional Source
DHDR Digital Health Drug Repository
DICS Diagnostic Imaging Common Services
DOB Date of Birth
DSTU Draft Standard for Trial Use
ECID Enterprise Patient Identifier
EHR Electronic Health Record
EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Index
FHIR HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Standard
HCN Provincial Health Card Number
HIAL Health Information Access Layer
HIC Health Information Custodian
HL7 Health Level Seven
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPs HTTP connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
ITI IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework
InfID Informational Identifier
InfSrc Informational Source
MOH Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
MoHLTC Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
MRN Medical Record Number
OHIP Ontario Health Insurance Plan
OID Object Identifier
pCS pan-Canadian Standard(s)
PAHN Pre-Assigned Health Card Number
PCR Provincial Client Registry
PDQ IHE Patient Demographic Query Profile (ITI-21)
PHI Personal Health Information
PI Personal Information
PIX IHE Patient Identifier Cross-Referencing Query Profile (ITI-9)
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PoS Point of Service Application or System
REST Representational State Transfer
RHP Regulated Healthcare Provider
RIM HL7 Reference Information Model
RPDB Ontario Registered Persons Database
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
URI Uniform Resource Identifier