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Scope

Based on Ontario's eHealth Blueprint, the Provincial Provider Registry (PPR) is the registry that contains authoritative information about health care providers and organizations in Ontario that fall within the definition of Health Information Custodian (HIC) or agent of a HIC pursuant to the Personal Health Information and Protection of Privacy Act (PHIPA).

In-Scope

This document provides functional implementation guidance for the HL7 FHIR operations defined to query the Ontario Health Provincial Provider Registry (PPR). This document is a 'point in time' reference which represents that most current 'dialect' of FHIR Standard for Trial Use that the PPR supports. This implementation guide is based on FHIR R4.

Note that the business and technical requirements framing PPR FHIR queries are shared by the alternative HL7 V3 standards, also supported for PPR query use.

Out of Scope

General PPR onboarding guidance including delivery methodology, required resources, and conformance testing requirements are currently out-of-scope for this document. Please contact the Ontario Health Registries Product Management Team at oh-ds_registries@ontariohealth.ca to initiate an integration with the PPR and receive supporting onboarding material.

PPR FHIR implementation guidance pertaining to non-functional connectivity with the Ontario Health Gateway, including PKI certificate and SAML requirements, is currently out-of-scope for this document. Please refer to the cross-reference links defined under the “Connectivity” sub-section accordingly.

This document does not cover prior PPR FHIR versions, and does not contain a mapping between the PPR HL7 FHIR and alternative PPR HL7 V3 query specification.