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Introduction

This document serves as a technical specification for implementing FHIR in order to interact with the Ontario Health Provincial Provider Registry. Sufficient business rationale is provided to illustrate the scenarios that the specification aims to fulfill. Storyboards, interactions, vocabulary, data types, object identifiers(URIs), and FHIR examples are included to facilitate the implementation process.

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