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FHIR® Implementations


Dedicated to the discovery, definition and publishing of HL7® FHIR® Implementation Guides, Conformance, Profiles, Extensions and ValueSets serving the Canadian context.
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Dedicated to the discovery, definition and publishing of HL7® FHIR® Implementation Guides, Conformance, Profiles, Extensions and ValueSets serving the Canadian context.

About

HL7 CanadaWelcome to the Canadian FHIR implementation community forum. The purpose of this forum is to collaborate on areas of FHIR implementation that will advance implementations across Canada, while contributing to the global adoption of FHIR. The objective is to develop pan-Canadian approaches to constraining and extending FHIR. The community has been active since January 2016 and has been growing ever since!

The community has several streams of activity:

  • Topical workstreams
  • Monthly community calls to share workstream progress and other FHIR-related news
    A general forum to ask questions and share information

The table below provides more details on the workstream activity:

Workstream Co-Chairs Objective Progress to date
Solution Architecture

Igor Sirkovich (OMHLTC)

Ken Sinn (Ontario Health Team)

  1. Serve as a forum for all architectural questions about implemention of FHIR based solutions
  2. Discuss Canadian URI (incl. mapping to OIDs), profiles and extensions
  1. Currently hosting governance calls for the FHIR Profiling Stream
eReferrals

Tim Berezny (CareDove)

Caryn Harris (Orion Health)

  1. Build eReferral use cases
  2. Prototype eReferral use cases
  3. Select Resources to include in Specifications
  4. Write preliminary Specifications for broader use
  1. Assembled stakeholders from across the e-referral spectrum to build a community led e-Referral specification.
  2. Published an e-referral implementation guide that has been adopted by various integrations across Ontario: https://simplifier.net/guide/ca-on-ereferral-r4-iguide-v0.11.0/Index/Home/Introduction?version=0.11.0
Community Monthly Calls

Gavin Tong (Gevity Inc.)

Yaron Derman (eHealth Ontario)

  1. Share progress within the workstreams within the broader FHIR community
  2. Identify and promote FHIR education and implementation activities
  1. Informative updates and discussions about FHIR globally and progress across the workstreams
  2. Average 17 participants per call.
Canadian Baseline Profiles & Governance

Sheridan Cook (Accenture)

Michael Savage (Sunlife)

  1. Create of a set of national FHIR profiles that can be leveraged by implementers and jurisdictions to promote re-use and interoperability
  2. Establish a common baseline / starting point for Canadian FHIR Implementations
  1. Organization of workstream into Profiling and Governance Streams, to allow for ample time to explore different types of issues
  2. Total of 78 proposed changes to draft Profiles received from FHIR Community
  3. Organization of Profiling Stream into sub-streams based on thematic groupings of FHIR Profiles: Entities, Medications, and Clinical
  4. Average 10 participants per call

Recordings of the CA FHIR Baseline Calls can be found on the following Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm8ff1Z6HoFTzBvcjJg9iRHTrvucbqEEQ

SMART on FHIR Community of Practice

Russell Buchanan (eHealth Centre of Excellence)


Raman Dhanoa (Dogwood Health Consulting)

Irfan Hakim (Accenture)

  1. Establish a shared foundation for Canadian SMART on FHIR application developers.

  2. Serve as a collaborative forum for discussing use-cases, solving SMART on FHIR implementation obstacles, and enabling demonstrations and insights across different provinces.

This group has commenced its discussions centered on SMART Launch contexts and related parameters. The intial use-cases that are being discussed include the Ocean SMART Launch V1.0, SMART Launch v2.0 and Telus Ocean Integration.

The FHIR community forum is a great place to learn, share and collaborate, whether you are new to FHIR or are already have deep FHIR experience.

Key Resources

Canadian Core Profiles

Activity

Sadrina Petit created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hello everyone, This is a friendly reminder that the review periods for the following specifications are closing soon: PS-CA v2.1.0 DFT-Ballot – Closes May 16, 2025 CA:eReC v1.1.0 DFT-Ballot – Closes May 16, 2025 CA:CSD v1.0.0 DFT Ballot – Closes May 2, 2025 Please take a moment to visit the respective release pages, review the documents, and submit your feedback before the deadlines. Here are the links for your convenience: Access to Specifications: ... If you have any questions or need further information, feel free to post them here or reach out to me directly. Thank you for your ongoing participation! Many thanks, Sadrina, on behalf of the Interoperability Team

Helen Wu created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hello everyone, Join us April 28–30, 2025, from 4:00 – 6:30 pm PT for the 2025 Pan-Canadian Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards 3-Day Virtual Workshop, hosted by the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. Hear from guest speakers across Canada on topics including the ..., ..., ..., and .... You’re welcome to attend any—or all—sessions! Visit the ... for the full agenda and .... We look forward to seeing you there!

Helen Wu created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hi all, As previously communicated, the Terminology Gateway will be partially retired on April 30, 2025. After this date, all core terminology resources, including SNOMED CT CA, pCLOCD, CCDD and ValueSets, will be accessible exclusively through our newly upgraded .... PrescribeIT® content will remain on the Terminology Gateway. Any new requests for ValueSets, updates, or changes (excluding PrescribeIT®) will be processed through the new FHIR Terminology Server. Since its launch, the Terminology Gateway has provided a trusted way to browse, download, and implement standardized terminologies across Canada, helping to improve interoperability and consistency. Building on this success, our new cloud-based FHIR Terminology Server delivers enhanced scalability, security, and reliability and is designed to be the central hub for managing and distributing high-quality international and pan-Canadian terminologies and ValueSets, ultimately supporting data standardization and interoperability. Action Required: Update Your Terminology Gateway Endpoints To avoid disruptions to your workflow, please download any necessary content from the Terminology Gateway before April 30th. While we are implementing backend changes to automatically redirect ValueSet canonical and defining URLs, we strongly recommend that you directly update your system endpoints as well as FHIR Implementation Guides/ Interoperability Specifications referencing a Terminology Gateway URL (e.g. any application system links, documentation, user guides, or websites, etc. that reference the Terminology Gateway, such as the Subset Defining URL (e.g. https://tgateway.infoway-inforoute.ca/vs/XX)). For detailed information on the migration timeline and new features on the FHIR Terminology Server, please check out our news article: .... Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact us at [email protected].

Michael Savage created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hi all! The agenda for this Friday April 25th's CA Baseline Governance Call (2-3pm ET) is as follows: Review CA Core/CA:FEX for Community Feedback & documented action items from Baseline perspective. Thank you!

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Michael Savage replied to a discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hi all! A minor addition to the planned agenda for today's CA Baseline Governance Call: 1. Discuss how any upcoming updates to CACDI/Cores & Mores should be incorporated in CA Baseline going forward. 2. Update that we'll be cancelling the April 18th Profiling call due to Good Friday, with the planned FHIRpath session with Lloyd shifting to the May 2nd CA Baseline session slot Thank you!

Michael Savage replied to a discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Thanks for the catch on this one Dean! We will be cancelling the Apr 18th CA Baseline Profiles session, and will move the FHIRpath agenda to the May 2nd session. I'll make updates to this accordingly. Thanks again!

Events



Upcoming events:

Wed May 28 @12:00PM - 01:00PM
FHIR Implementers Quarterly Community Call
Fri May 30 @ 2:00PM - 03:00PM
CA Baseline Profiles - Profiling Stream
Fri Jun 13 @ 2:00PM - 03:00PM
CA Baseline Profiles - Governance Stream (rescheduled from Profiling)

Forum

Reminder: Review & Comment on DFT-Ballot Specs 04/25/25

Hello everyone, This is a friendly reminder that the review periods for the following specifications are closing soon: PS-CA v2.1.0 DFT-Ballot – Closes May 16, 2025 CA:eReC v1.1.0 DFT-Ballot – Closes May 16, 2025 CA:CSD v1.0.0 DFT Ballot...

2025 Pan-Canadian HIE Standards 3-Day Virtual Workshop | April 28–30 04/25/25

Hello everyone, Join us April 28–30, 2025, from 4:00 – 6:30 pm PT for the 2025 Pan-Canadian Health Information Exchange (HIE) Standards 3-Day Virtual Workshop, hosted by the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. Hear...

Reminder: Migration from Terminology Gateway on April 30, 2025 04/24/25

Hi all, As previously communicated, the Terminology Gateway will be partially retired on April 30, 2025. After this date, all core terminology resources, including SNOMED CT CA, pCLOCD, CCDD and ValueSets, will be accessible exclusively through o...

CA Baseline Governance Call - Fri Apr 25th 2-3pm ET - Agenda 04/23/25

Hi all! The agenda for this Friday April 25th's CA Baseline Governance Call (2-3pm ET) is as follows: Review CA Core/CA:FEX for Community Feedback & documented action items from Baseline perspective. Thank you!

CA Baseline Governance Call - Fri Apr 11 2-3pm - Agenda 04/11/25

Hi all! A minor addition to the planned agenda for today's CA Baseline Governance Call: 1. Discuss how any upcoming updates to CACDI/Cores & Mores should be incorporated in CA Baseline going forward. 2. Update that we'll be cancelling the Apr...

Apr 18th CA Baseline Profiles call - FHIRpath Session 04/11/25

Thanks for the catch on this one Dean! We will be cancelling the Apr 18th CA Baseline Profiles session, and will move the FHIRpath agenda to the May 2nd session. I'll make updates to this accordingly. Thanks again!

Apr 18th CA Baseline Profiles call - FHIRpath Session 04/09/25

The 18th is Good Friday, how many people will be available?

Apr 18th CA Baseline Profiles call - FHIRpath Session 04/09/25

Hi all! Wanted to provide this group advance notice that the Friday April 18th (2-3pm ET) CA FHIR Baseline Profiling call will feature a session graciously provided by Lloyd McKenzie on FHIRPath, including an overview of the language, where it is...

CA Baseline Governance Call - Fri Apr 11 2-3pm - Agenda 04/09/25

Hi all! The agenda for this Friday April 11th's CA Baseline Governance Call (2-3pm ET) is the following: 1. Discuss how any upcoming updates to CACDI/Cores & Mores should be incorporated in CA Baseline going forward. Thank you!

Important Updates: Enhancements to FHIR Terminology Server & Migration from TG 04/01/25

Hello everyone, Infoway is pleased to share some important updates regarding our .... We have significantly enhanced the system to provide a smoother, more consistent experience with improved features such as advanced search and filtering, expand...

CA Baseline Governance Call - Fri Mar 28 2-3pm ET - Agenda 03/27/25

Hi all! Apologies for the delayed agenda post for the upcoming Friday March 28th 2-3pm ET CA Baseline Governance call agenda. The agenda for this call is to share both plans for CA Core+ and CA:FeX release plans. Thank you!

Open Review webinar - Ontario Mental Health and Addictions Provincial Data Set 03/24/25

Hello, Ontario Health will be hosting an Open Review webinar on March 27, 2025, @ 12:00-1:00pm (EST) to provide details on the Ontario Mental Health and Addictions Provincial Data Set HL7® FHIR® v. 2.0 Interoperability Specification, explain the p...

IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework Documents Published 03/13/25

Hi all, The IT Infrastructure Technical Committee has published the following updated Technical Framework Supplement for public comment in the period from March 13 through April 14, 2025: • Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD) - Revision 4.0....

CANCELLED - CA Baseline Governance Call - Fri Mar 14th 2-3pm ET 03/12/25

Hi all! This is a heads-up that this Friday's occurrence of the CA Baseline Governance call will be cancelled. We will aim to line up a presentation from Infoway on CA Core in 2 weeks' time (i.e. the next occurring CA Baseline Governance Call agen...

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Architecture ( 2 Documents )

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CA Baseline Materials ( 17 Documents )

CDS Hooks ( 1 Document )

Client Registry ( 2 Documents )

Consent Management ( 0 Document )

eReferral ( 68 Documents )

Meeting Materials ( 10 Documents )

Provider Registry ( 1 Document )

Questionnaire ( 3 Documents )

SMART on FHIR ( 3 Documents )

Tooling ( 9 Documents )

Identifier OID Registration Form for Altera

Published on Oct 24, 2024 by Vania Granese

Identifier OID registration form for Ofys

Published on Jun 13, 2024 by Karine Fournier

03-15-2024_ CA Core+ v0.1 DFT Infoway - CIHI Dispositioning

Published on Mar 15, 2024 by Sadrina Petit

Identifier OID Registration Form Mackenzie Health

Published on Oct 18, 2023 by Prabhdeep Dhaliwal

Nova Scotia OID Request Form for Dietitians and Nutritionists

Published on Aug 29, 2023 by Chuntang Liu

HL7 OID for Quebec - clarification of .56 and .100

Published on Jun 07, 2022 by Anibal Jodorcovsky

Canada Type 3 OIDS - Professional Colleges

Published on Nov 23, 2021 by Joanie Harper

Identifier OID Registration Form OmniMed

Published on Aug 05, 2021 by Vania Granese

ca-NamingSystem screenshot

Published on Nov 16, 2020 by Joanie Harper

Identifier OID Registration Form_ShoppersDrugMart_Type4

Published on Oct 07, 2020 by Vania Granese

Identifier OID Registration Form for ATLAS Alliance

Published on Oct 04, 2020 by Vania Granese

Identifier OID Registration Form Aware MD

Published on Sep 03, 2020 by Vania Granese

FHIR NamingSystem Template 2020

Published on Jul 21, 2020 by Joel Francis

HL7 Canada Pres to FHIR Community 2020-03-25

Published on Mar 25, 2020 by Michael Savage

Identifier OID Registration Form QHR

Published on Mar 06, 2020 by Vania Granese

Canadian Core Project Deck - as of Nov 6 2019

Published on Nov 06, 2019 by Michael Savage

Alberta Pharmacy License Number

Published on Nov 04, 2019 by Randy Nonay

Life of Lamberts Consolidated Stories

Published on Oct 25, 2019 by Michael Savage

SDC on FHIR by Joel Francis and Alex goel

Published on Sep 06, 2019 by Alexander Goel

ACCESS Atlantic Discovery Phase B Presentation - July 2019

Published on Jul 24, 2019 by Michael Savage

Alberta Delivery Site Identifier OIDS

Published on Jul 04, 2019 by Randy Nonay

Canadian Core Profile - Template for Review / Proposed Changes

Published on Jun 21, 2019 by Michael Savage

Vendor OID Form IntraHealth EMR

Published on Jun 11, 2019 by Vania Granese

Alberta Prescription Monitoring Protocol OID request

Published on Mar 29, 2019 by Randy Nonay

OID registration form for Microquest Canada

Published on Mar 29, 2019 by Randy Nonay

OID Registration Form for Input Health

Published on Mar 22, 2019 by Vania Granese

Identifier OID Registration Form for Indivica

Published on Mar 05, 2019 by Vania Granese

Joel Francis' HL7 WGM Update

Published on Jan 23, 2019 by Yaron Derman

New OIDs Request Process

Published on Dec 05, 2018 by Joel Francis

Terminology Gateway - Overview

Published on Dec 05, 2018 by Joel Francis

Why FHIR, Why Now?

Published on Dec 14, 2017 by Tasha Shaw-Verbic

Pourquoi utiliser FHIR et pourquoi maintenant

Published on Dec 13, 2017 by Tasha Shaw-Verbic

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