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Standard

Fit for Purpose

Stewardship

Quality

Fits
Requirements

Implementation
Type 

Vendor Support

Canadian
Steward

SDO
Maintained

Complexity

Standard
Maturity

Training, Support
and Tooling

FHIR Immunization

Yes

Pilot
in Canada Medium

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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.css">
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No

Yes

Medium

Draft for Use

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Draft for Use

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Yes

pan-Canadian Immunization Messaging Standard (Public Health MR 02.05)

Yes

Production
in Canada 

Low

Yes

Localized

High

Normative

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Yes

Localized

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Normative

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Yes

Architectural Constraints and Considerations

Secondary Benefits

FHIR’s modular components, foundation on web standards and support for RESTful architectures make the standard generally less complex and more accessible to developers of client applications than the pan-Canadian standards which are based on HL7 v3.

No notable secondary benefits.

Recommendation

Supporting Rationale

It is recommended that Panorama based new implementations adopt FHIR.

FHIR supports the use cases described above without further extension or localization. In the event that extension is required to support future requirements, FHIR provides a straightforward mechanism for creating extensions.

Canada-specific terminology value sets can be used while remaining “FHIR conformant”, as the FHIR Immunization resource only specifies examples; implementers are free to use any value set they choose.

FHIR has significant momentum among vendors and developers, meaning the long-term sustainability of FHIR-based implementations will likely be superior.

There is a substantial ecosystem of open-source tools and reference implementations for FHIR that implementers can leverage to accelerate their projects.

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