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DateApril 2018InfoRMSSR-65
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TypeMaintenance
Scope Statement

Note: Subsets that are included in the April 2018 Release are found in the table below. 

Changes included in this release may include:
  • Requests to add, change or inactivate content in both English and French
  • Corrections to content (typographical errors, metadata updates etc.) 
  • Change logs are available via the Terminology Gateway

    • Click here to review more general information about subset releases. 

    Change logs that are specific to each subset can be found on the Terminology Gateway.

    Primary Health Care General Notes

    In order to facilitate standardization of data at the Primary Healthcare (PHC) point of service (PoS), as well as interoperability and health system use, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in collaboration with jurisdictions and Canada Health Infoway Inc. (Infoway), led the development of the Draft Primary Health Care Electronic Medical Record Content Standard (PHC EMR CS). The The PHC EMR CS has since been updated and renamed by CIHI to be the Primary Health Care Electronic Medical Record Content Standard Minimum Data Set (PHC EMR CS) was updated to v3.0, which includes a priority subset (from 106 to 45 data elements) and associated clinician-friendly pick-lists. The intent of the standard is to increase the availability of structured coded data in EMRs and support priority information needs at the practice and health system levels.To support this Content StandardMDS) for Performance Measurement. To support this MDS, Infoway continues to revise the PHC subsets where appropriate. 

    More information on the Primary Health Care Content Standards the PHC EMR MDS  can be found on InfoCentral.

    Subsets Inactivated This Release

    ClientReasonForEncounterCode

    Subsets Maintained This Release

    ClientIdentifierAssigningAuthorityCode

    ClientIdentifierTypeCode

    ClientSocialBehaviourCode

    ClientStatusCode

    EncounterTypeCode

    HeightUnitOfMeasureCode

    PassiveAdministeredImmunizingAgentCode

    PassiveHistoricalImmunizingAgentCode

    ProviderIdentifierAssigningAuthorityCode

    ProviderIdentifierTypeCode

    ProviderRoleCode

    ReferralServiceCodeSubsetNurse

    ReferralServiceCodeSubsetOtherProvider

    ReferralServiceCodeSubsetPhysician

    VaccineAdministeredTradeNameCode

    VaccineHistoricalNameCode

    WeightUnitOfMeasureCode

    Subsets Not Maintained This Release

    HealthConcernCode

    HealthConcernCodeSubsetCommonlyUsed

    InterventionCode

    LaboratoryObservationUnitOfMeasureCode

    ObservationOrderableLabTypeCommonlyUsed

    ReferralServiceCode

    ReferralServiceCodeSubsetService