The Provider Registry (PR) is a foundational component of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) which provides a trusted and centralized source of regulated health service provider information to authorized consumers. Health Service Provider Identifiers (HSPID) within the PR enable unique identification of individual health care providers across the systems participating in the EHR. Demographic and licensing information for all providers is stored within the PR for validation and/or retrieval by source and consumer systems and organizations.
This Guide relates to is concerned with extending information exchange in the Provider Registry using with existing, provincial Provider Registries to support contribution and consumption use cases including those that enable consumer applications using new FHIR resources that reflect Canadian content. The guide is proposing development of FHIR artefacts (e.g. implementation guides, profiles, extensions, valuesets, etc.) that reflect and interact with Canadian content in a standardized manner.