The Provider Registry (PR) is a foundational component of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) that provides a trusted and centralized source of regulated health service provider information to authorized custodians. The Registry supports the verification of health service provider licensing and identity information, as well as referral services by allowing authorized custodians to look up Practitioner Identifiers. Point-of-Service (POS) systems need to be able to query the PR to retrieve provider license and demographic information.
This Guide relates to standards used by Alberta Health to maintain provider information within the Provincial Provider Registry System (PRS) and various EHR consumer applications.