Introduction

This page contains information and material you will need to prepare for the online PS-CA Projectathon 2022. 

Preparation Material 

Specifications

The PS-CA Interoperability Bundle is comprised of the following specification documents that may be accessed here.

RevisionRevision date

pan-Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specifications (PS-CA Specifications)

  • Implementable and testable specifications, based on the IHE International Patient Summary specification and the HL7 IPS Implementation Guide.
  • Building blocks to create and share condition-independent and specialty-agnostic patient summaries, irrespective of the condition of the patient or the treatment sought or specialty of the provider delivery care.
0.2January 28, 2022

pan-Canadian Patient Summary – FHIR Implementation Guide

  • Implementable, testable specification for the HL7 FHIR composition that defines the data payload of the PS-CA specification, based on the HL7 FHIR IPS implementation guide.
  • Contains information for solution developers to implement the PS-CA content data model using the HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard. It describes the data elements & types, cardinality, constraints, and code system references.
0.2January 28, 2022

pan-Canadian Patient Summary - Companion Guide to Use Cases & Definitions

  • Companion document to the PS-CA Specifications that presents the broader context for clinical, business, interoperability and solution development considerations that were discovered during the development of the PS-CA. 
  • Defines the healthcare problem that the PS-CA addresses and includes healthcare use cases and interoperability requirements in terms that will be traceable to the content in the pan-Canadian Patient Summary - Companion Guide to Reference Architecture.
0.2January 28, 2022

pan-Canadian Patient Summary - Companion Guide to Reference Architecture

  • Contains background information on the abstracted PS-CA actors and transactions for the Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Interoperable Specifications, describes baseline information on the recommended IHE profiles, and includes links to the IHE source documentation where stakeholders can get additional details on each PS-CA actor and transaction.
  • Includes descriptions of alternatives and choices for implementation patterns and ecosystem architectures to support the PS-CA in current state, including sequence diagrams that demonstrate the relationship and dependencies between the PS-CA actors and transactions.
0.2January 28, 2022


In addition to the PS-CA Interoperability Bundle, you may wish to review this diagram which provides a high-level view of relevant Integration Profiles to support the PS-CA project. This view contains a superset of profiles that offer alternatives to exchanging Patient Summaries, depending on Jurisdictional service type and availability. Mandatory and optional capability support is described in the sequence diagrams associated with each Use Case analysis.

Tool Documentation

Tool documentation is available at https://pancanadianIO.ca. From the home page, you may access the documentation for each tool by clicking on the respective PDF icon.

Tool Connection Details 

Below are the connection details for the testing tool hosted in the testing environment. All tools can be accessed at this IP address: XXX.  


REQUIRED ACTORS 

Participants must play the role of one of the required actors from the table below.

Tested ActorTransactionSimulated ActorPortComments
Tool: TBD
MHD Document Source

MHD* Provide Document Bundle [ITI-65]

MHD Document Recipient 

MHD Document Consumer 

MHD* Find Document References [ITI-67]

MHD* Retrieve Document [ITI-68]

MHD Document Responder 











Tool: TBD
CA:FeX Formatting  Support 









OPTIONAL ACTORS

Participants may also choose to play the role of any of the optional actors from the table below,  

Tested ActorTransactionSimulated ActorPortComments
Tool: TBD 
PDQm





Tool: TBD
IUA 



Tool: TBD
ATNA



CT



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