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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

Michael Savage created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hi all! For this Friday's CA Baseline Governance Call (Fri Dec 8th 2-3pm EST), the agenda is as follows: 1. Returning to discussion on interest in CA Baseline community providing targeted feedback on the CA Core 0.1 subset (Patient, Practitioner, PractitionerRole, Organization), evaluating timeline, and outlining practices/steps for reviewing and providing feedback as a community Thank you!

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Mukesh Kashyap created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

A New URI request from British Columbia - College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada Here are the details of the request for review: Subject: College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada URI Description: A unique identifier for the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada to a registered Pharmacy within the Province of BC URI Symbolic name: ca-bc-license-pharmacy Proposed FHIR URI: https://simplifier.net/CanadianURIRegistry/ca-bc-registered-pharmacy OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.607 Responsible Body & Contact Information: BC Ministry of Health, [email protected] Please review this information and advise if you have any questions and concerns, Best Regards. Mukesh Kashyap

Mukesh Kashyap created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Here are the details of the request for review: Subject: College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada OID Description: A unique number that is issued by the British Columbia for The college of Pharmacists of British Columbia to uniquely identify a licensed Pharmacist in British Columbia OID Symbolic name: ca-bc-license-pharmacist OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.3.40.2.14 Proposed FHIR URI: https://simplifier.net/CanadianURIRegistry/ca-bc-license-pharmacist Responsible Body & Contact Information: BC Ministry of Health, [email protected] Please review this information and advise if you have any questions and concerns, Best Regards. Mukesh Kashyap

Michael Savage created a new discussion in FHIR® Implementations

Hi all! The agenda for this Friday's CA Baseline Profile updates call is as follows: 1. Circle back to discussion about interest in providing comments towards an early subset of CA Core profiles 2. Return to community issue log items, with emphasis on: a. Assess whether extensions require fixes to slicing or modified modelled b. Assess how to deal with practitionerRole outstanding tickets related to terminology differences Thank you!

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Events



Upcoming events:

Fri Dec 08 @ 2:00PM - 03:00PM
CA Baseline Profiles Governance
Fri Dec 15 @ 2:00PM - 03:00PM
CA Baseline Profiles Updates
Fri Dec 22 @ 2:00PM - 03:00PM
CA Baseline Profiles Governance

Forum

CA Baseline Profiles - Governance Call - Fri Dec 8th 2-3pm EST 12/06/23

Hi all! For this Friday's CA Baseline Governance Call (Fri Dec 8th 2-3pm EST), the agenda is as follows: 1. Returning to discussion on interest in CA Baseline community providing targeted feedback on the CA Core 0.1 subset (Patient, Practitione...

A New URI request from BC - College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada 12/01/23

A New URI request from British Columbia - College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada Here are the details of the request for review: Subject: College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada URI Description: A unique identifier for t...

A New OID request from BC - College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada 12/01/23

Here are the details of the request for review: Subject: College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Canada OID Description: A unique number that is issued by the British Columbia for The college of Pharmacists of British Columbia to uniquely ide...

CA Baseline Profile Updates - Friday Dec 1st 2-3pm EST - Agenda 11/29/23

Hi all! The agenda for this Friday's CA Baseline Profile updates call is as follows: 1. Circle back to discussion about interest in providing comments towards an early subset of CA Core profiles 2. Return to community issue log items, with e...

CA Baseline Profiles - Governance Call - Friday Nov 24th 2-3pm EST - Agenda 11/22/23

Hi all! For this Friday's CA Baseline call, the agenda is as follows: 1. Update regarding CA Baseline community's ask to be engaged earlier/more iteratively in p-CHDCF and CA Core profiles conversations and developments 2. Quick check-in reg...

FHIR Implementers Community Call - Nov 2023 - Notes & Recording 11/22/23

Hi all! Thanks everyone for a great quarterly call today! Please use this link to view the recording of the call: https://youtu.be/qRNIGKxDeAo As well, here are some notes from the session: Updates: Patient Summary Updates - Working G...

FHIR Implementers Community Call - Nov 2023 - Notes & Recording 11/22/23

Hi all! Thanks everyone for a great quarterly call today! Please use this link to view the recording of the call: https://youtu.be/qRNIGKxDeAo As well, here are some notes from the session: Updates: Patient Summary Updates - Working G...

FHIR Implementers Community Call - Nov 2023 - Notes & Recording 11/22/23

Hi all! Thanks everyone for a great quarterly call today! Please use this link to view the recording of the call: https://youtu.be/qRNIGKxDeAo As well, here are some notes from the session: Updates: Patient Summary Updates - Working G...

FHIR Implementers Community Call - Weds Nov 22 12-1pm EST (Today) - Agenda 11/22/23

Hi everyone! Apologies for the late agenda post. For our scheduled FHIR Implementers Community Call today, the agenda is as follows: Updates: 1. Update on Canadian Patient Summary work (working group progress & implementations) 2. Open Mic -...

CA Baseline - Profiles Updates Call - Friday Nov 17th 2-3pm EST Agenda 11/15/23

Hi all! The agenda for this Friday's CA Baseline Profile updates call is to continue working through line items in the community issue log, as captured via the Issue Log on the Simplifier view of the CA Baseline Profiles. Will work through decisio...

CA Baseline Canonicals- Assessing Impact to Inform Decision 11/10/23

Hey Folks - We're getting new errors in CA Baseline that are tied to our canonical url convention. You can read the .... We need to make a decision to stay with the same canonical convention or change, and need your help (authors, vendors/syst...

CA Baseline Governance Call - Still Happening 11/10 11/08/23

Hey folks - we previously discussed cancelling the CA Baseline Gov call this Friday, however something has come up related to governance and canonical conventions that we felt would be helpful to discuss this Friday. So the call is back on. Huge...

CA Baseline - Profile Updates - Friday Nov 3rd 2-3pm EST Agenda 11/01/23

Hi all! For this Friday's CA Baseline Profile Updates call, we will be continuing to work through community-raised issues stored in the CA Baseline issue log on Simplifier. For reference: https://simplifier.net/CanadianFHIRBaselineProfilesCA-Co...

EMR POS Vendor Type 4 OID request for Mackenzie Health 10/30/23

Hi Prabhdeep, Based on our conversation we agree that it would be more suitable to create a new OID for PrescribeIT. Thanks Cindy

EMR POS Vendor Type 4 OID request for Mackenzie Health 10/30/23

Hi Cindy, We had an internal discussion with our Standards team, and we concluded it would be better to create a new OID for PrescribeIT purposes. Thank you. Prabhdeep

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Architecture ( 2 Documents )

BusinessCase ( 6 Documents )

CDS Hooks ( 1 Document )

Client Registry ( 2 Documents )

Consent Management ( 0 Document )

eReferral ( 68 Documents )

Meeting Materials ( 9 Documents )

Provider Registry ( 1 Document )

Questionnaire ( 3 Documents )

SMART on FHIR ( 3 Documents )

Tooling ( 9 Documents )

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

Video

A Collaborative Approach to Interoperability in Canada

Hello members of the FHIR® Implementation working group, If you were unable to attend Infoway's session on 'A Collaborative Approach to Interoperability in Canada' please find a recording of the presentation in the link below. Please feel free to contact us at: [email protected] if you have any questions. Sincerely, Interoperability Team

10/20/23

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