Actor Mapping to Interoperability Specification 


The Use Case Actors and the Services they support are described at a functional level in the Patient Summary – Companion Guide to Use Cases and Definitions. Services may be Recommended or Optional. The Use Case Actors, Services and Optionality are conveyed in the first three columns of Tables 1 to 3 in the section below. The second part of the table (columns 4-6) provides the mapping of the Use Case Actor to the detailed specifications (such as IHE Profiles, Technical Actors, Optionality) that systems shall implement to exchange healthcare information in the context of these Use Cases. The purpose of the tables below is to map the use case actors to the technical actors and the services they are supporting. These tables are aligned with the flow captured in the sequence diagrams which are included in the Companion Guide: Reference Architecture section. 

For a selected Use Case Actor (columns 1-3), the system shall implement all the requirements (some optionality when allowed) listed in the second part of the table (columns 4-6). This includes the referenced healthcare profiles, the standards specified and terminology standards. For Technical Actors, which map to IHE Profiles or pan-Canadian Interoperability Specifications (MHD, PDQm, PMIR, CA:FeX, etc.), refer to the Reference Architecture, here. Additionally, there are two implementation options defined in this specification (MHD and CA:FeX), which may be used to solve for the use cases outlined in the tables below.

The following interoperability requirement tables are categorized by options for implementation patterns that jurisdictions may choose based on their maturity, capabilities and current state:

  1. Document Repository/Registry Pattern using MHD 
  2. FHIR Health Information Exchange (HIE) Pattern using CA:FeX  


Published Versions 

This is an evolving specification, the release cycle assumes some degree of change will happen across versions.  Versions of the artefacts that are employed by the PS-CA Specifications will be clearly defined and align to testing requirements. For information about the supported versions of the in scope IHE Profiles that have been referenced in this PS-CA Specification refer to the Reference Architecture RA v0.2.0 DFT. 

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R = Required

O = Optional

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