The Provider
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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 the messaging standards used by the Provider Registry System (PRS) originally developed for the Western Health Information Collaborative (WHIC) provinces and later extended for use in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. The content of the guide reflects functionality that is available to all users of the PRS system although not yet deployed in all provincesto provide and maintain the information in the Provider Registry as well as those used to access it from consumer applications.