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Business Model

Context

Many organizations across the province provide health care services and require access to up-to-date and accurate provider information. The role of the Provincial Provider Registry (PPR) is to serve as an authoritative provincial source of provider person and organization/location information to:

• reduce manual efforts related to maintaining the provider information within point of care systems and provider repositories

• increase the accuracy of provider information by providing EHR contributors access to the most-up-to-date provider information

• reduce exception-handling for provider correspondence (e.g. returned fax/mail)

• support authentication and authorization of provider persons and locations when providing or accessing information in Ontario’s EHR

Model

The PPR maintains a comprehensive source of provider information using information received from different contributing sources, including:

• provider person license data and identifiers from regulatory colleges

• Provider Organization/location data from selected Regulatory Colleges

• provider person and organization/location information from the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Corporate Providers DataBase (CPDB)

The identifiers, licensing information and demographic information maintained in the PPR is then used by other EHR services to associate information collected in the EHR with the healthcare providers who provided the services or the information. The provider identifiers, license information and demographic data stored in the PPR are also made available to authorized organizations through multiple query service endpoints.

Figure below illustrates the PPR system context.

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Figure - System Context

Available Functions

The following functions are available to organizations that query information from the PPR:

Table - Available Functions

*Interactions corresponding to the HL7 FHIR Query service are specified in this document.