Répetoire des normes

• Reporting of Emergency Department (ED) diagnoses in Canada
• Facilitates comparative reporting, identifies patient populations and describes demand for types of service

• A suite of standardized clinical terms and concepts that reflect nursing practice and document patient outcomes in electronic health records

• Uniquely identifies a health care client within the health care system
• Supports the ability to query, add and update health care client demographics as required

• Facilitates the standardized electronic reporting of cancer pathology and staging data to provincial and territorial cancer registries

• Standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging.
• Enables the integration of scanners, servers, workstations, printers, and network hardware from multiple manufacturers into a picture archiving and communication system (PACS).

• Prescribing
• Dispensing
• Adding other medication such as physician samples or over-the-counter medications
• Patient medication queries including contraindications that have previously been identified and managed
• Drug queries
• Checking contraindications such as drug-to-drug interactions, drug-to-allergy interactions or dosage checking
• Managing prescription status (e.g. prescriptions that are put on hold).

• Enables legal entities (e.g. provincial health authorities, hospitals, manufacturers, etc.) and physical locations (e.g. a hospital wing or manufacturer's warehouse) to be uniquely identified in Canada and globally.

• Enables products such as pharmaceuticals (prescription and over the counter products) and other products (e.g., medical devices, food products) to be uniquely identified in Canada and globally

• Identifies drug products when prescribing, dispensing and submitting financial claims

• Enables the discovery and retrieval of relevant diagnostic imaging documents (Image & Report)
• Distributing imaging documents to authorized users/systems across a group of affiliated enterprises (Affinity Domains)

• Supports clinical information-sharing generated primarily on the basis of clinical assessments. Includes:
  • Clinical Observations
  • Professional Services
  • Health Conditions
  • Care Compositions
  • Allergy/Intolerance/Adverse Reaction
  • Patient Note
  • Clinical Documents (Discharge/Care Summary, Referral, Clinical Observation Document)
  • EHR Clinical Summary/Profile

• Support clinical practice by assessing persons across the continuum of care (in home and continuing care and mental health care settings), identifying preferences, needs and strengths of persons, and providing evidence-based information to support clinical decision-making
• Support health system uses such as clinical program management, health system management, and research

• Human: submit orders; query order status; access results; refer and redirect lab-to-lab orders
• Disciplines supported by the laboratory standard, but not limited to, are: clinical chemistry (e.g. glucose); hematology (eg. Hemoglobin); microbiology (e.g. urine culture); pathology (e.g. biopsy); (limited) transfusion medicine (blood group and antibody screening);
• Non-Human: supports sharing of non-human laboratory information between clinical laboratories; includes water, food, animal suspicious substances testing and environmental swabs in point-to-point interfaces that affect population health; activate or revise an order; access results.

To support the pan-Canadian messaging standards, the following business and technical artifacts have been created:

• Master Terminology Worksheet (MTW): A human readable Excel file that provides links between the messaging artifacts and the terminology worksheet. It also includes the business rules to generate the allowable value set contents and URLs to the related code systems. It covers all messaging standard domains.
• Terminology Implementation Guide: Provides implementation, compliance and conformance guidelines for use in developing software that conforms to Infoway’s Message Specifications. The Implementation Guide has been available since Maintenance Release 2009.
• Vocabulary Model Interchange Format (MIF): Files that provide a way for computer systems to consume the information in the MTW. The MIF has been available since Maintenance Release 2009.

• Supports electronic claims management
• NeCST Standards currently support invoicing; predetermination, special authorization and statements of financial activity in the pharmacy, physio-chiro and vision lines of business, through defined messages.

• Provides standardization for disparate lab tests across multiple organizations and platforms allowing for comparability and analysis of consolidated lab data
• Provides options for standardizing laboratory test names and reporting units across disparate lab systems for use in a consolidated system
• Facilitates semantic interoperability between disparate lab systems
• Supports all commonly used lab tests and the majority of tests done in specialty areas
• Supports both ordering and reporting lab tests

• Uniquely identifies a health care provider within the health care system
• Supports queries, additions and updates to health care provider demographics

• Forecasting patient-specific immunization
• Recording immunization
• Accessing immunization history
• Determining jurisdictional immunization coverage
• Distributed immunization management

• Identifies a service delivery location within the health care system
• Supports the ability to query, add and update service delivery locations as required

SNOMED CT^® is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. The following clinical information groups outlined below have been approved CAS.

• Diagnosis
• Family history
• Genetic condition
• Non-drug agent adverse reaction
• Non-drug offending agent type
• Non-drug offending agent description risk factor
• Risk factor
• Clinical findings (health of symptom problem)
• Physical assessment findings
• Anatomical site
• Patient health problem

• Ensures that sensitive health care remains secure, non-repudiated and private when shared across systems
• Ensures reliable and efficient end-to-end communication of health care information
• Routes and dispatches health care information to appropriate sources/systems
• Handles exceptions experienced during information exchange
• Leverages Service Oriented Architecture transport features