This document describes provincial electronic health record (EHR) connectivity requirements to be used by health care stakeholders in the procurement of point of service (POS) systems. It is a component of . A POS is an application used by health care providers for viewing or managing client personal health information (PHI). This includes hospital information systems (HIS), community and ambulatory health information systems, and provincial/regional EHR viewers. Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems are out of scope for this document. EHR Connectivity Requirements for EMRs are defined by Ontario EMR Specifications managed by OntarioMD. POS systems meeting the requirements listed will be strategically positioned to integrate with key provincial EHR assets and pre-enabled for the province-wide exchange of clinical information. Conformance to specific requirements (e.g. Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)) will enable streamlined clinician access to province-wide systems, including: EHR services from ConnectingOntario (Greater Toronto Area (GTA), connectingSouthWestOntario, Northern and Eastern Region (NER)). Health Shared Services Ontario’s Client Health and Related Information System (CHRIS) Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) This document will be reviewed by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s Hospital Information System Renewal Advisory Panel and additional updates to the requirements will be made based on feedback received. EHR? POS systems are designed to support integrated access to health care information, at any time and from any location. Providers need a comprehensive, up-to-date view of their patients’ personal health information from all health care providers and organizations involved in their care, from all disciplines, and including medication history, test results, allergies, immunizations, hospital reports, office and ambulatory consultations, encounter history, diagnostic results, and assessments. This information may also need to be shared with other providers supporting the patient. In order for POS systems to support integrated access to and sharing of health care information they must be interoperable with Ontario’s EHR assets. Interoperability allows systems to connect to, exchange with, and process data from other systems, so that information sent from one system can be understood by another. The following diagram illustrates the elements of the Electronic Health Record in Ontario, and serves as the basis for the list of requirements noted in later sections of this document.
This document describes provincial electronic health record (EHR) connectivity requirements to be used by health care stakeholders in the procurement of point of service (POS) systems. It is a component of . A POS is an application used by health care providers for viewing or managing client personal health information (PHI). This includes hospital information systems (HIS), community and ambulatory health information systems, and provincial/regional EHR viewers. Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems are out of scope for this document. EHR Connectivity Requirements for EMRs are defined by Ontario EMR Specifications managed by OntarioMD. POS systems meeting the requirements listed will be strategically positioned to integrate with key provincial EHR assets and pre-enabled for the province-wide exchange of clinical information. Conformance to specific requirements (e.g. Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)) will enable streamlined clinician access to province-wide systems, including: EHR services from ConnectingOntario (Greater Toronto Area (GTA), connectingSouthWestOntario, Northern and Eastern Region (NER)). Health Shared Services Ontario’s Client Health and Related Information System (CHRIS) Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) This document will be reviewed by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s Hospital Information System Renewal Advisory Panel and additional updates to the requirements will be made based on feedback received. EHR? POS systems are designed to support integrated access to health care information, at any time and from any location. Providers need a comprehensive, up-to-date view of their patients’ personal health information from all health care providers and organizations involved in their care, from all disciplines, and including medication history, test results, allergies, immunizations, hospital reports, office and ambulatory consultations, encounter history, diagnostic results, and assessments. This information may also need to be shared with other providers supporting the patient. In order for POS systems to support integrated access to and sharing of health care information they must be interoperable with Ontario’s EHR assets. Interoperability allows systems to connect to, exchange with, and process data from other systems, so that information sent from one system can be understood by another. The following diagram illustrates the elements of the Electronic Health Record in Ontario, and serves as the basis for the list of requirements noted in later sections of this document.
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