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Intended Audience

The intended audiences of this document are business and technical implementers who are interested in retrieving provider information from the Ontario Health Provincial Provider Registry. The readers are expected to have an understanding of the business and technical requirements for querying and receiving provider information from the Provincial Provider Registry.

The audience for this specification includes Ontario Health programs and any other organizations implementing the specifications contained in this guide. 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 stakeholder organizations.

Readers are expected to understand the business context of how an enterprise master provider index (EMPI) is used to support provider information, the RESTful paradigm and have some basic understanding of HL7 FHIR R4.