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Profiles & Operations

Summary of Operations

Operations Resource HTTP Verb
Submit Patient Summary Bundle POST, PUT
Search Patient Summary Bundle GET, POST
Retrieve Patient Summary Bundle GET

Actors

Actor Description Application Example
Patient Summary Document Source An Ontario Patient Summary Document Source is the producer and submitter of Patient Summary documents, conformant to this specification, and document metadata. EMR, HIS
Patient Summary Document Recipient An Ontario Patient Summary Document Recipient receives documents and metadata, sent by Document Source actor. Ontario Health Patient Summary Repository
Patient Summary Document Consumer An Ontario Patient Summary Document Consumer queries for document metadata meeting certain criteria and may retrieve selected document(s) EMR, HIS
Patient Summary Document Responder An Ontario Patient Summary Document Responder sends documents and metadata in response to a request from another actor. Ontario Health Patient Summary Repository

Profiles

Resources are the building blocks of the FHIR standard. These resources convey the content of clinical records, identify patients or practitioners, or otherwise support information exchange between systems. These resources have been developed by numerous working groups at HL7, based on members' experience and subject expertise. The elements defined within FHIR resources are intended to capture and support those elements that 80% of implementers of a given resource are expected to support. Less frequently implemented elements are supported through FHIR's extensibility mechanisms. The list of all available resources in the R4 FHIR standard can be found here.

The base FHIR resources profiled / used in the Ontario Patient Summary are: