Test Data Supporting CA Core+ v0.3.0

This section describes the data that may be used to prepare your system in support of the No-Peer and Peer-to-Peer testing.

Clinical Data Sets

As described in the Test Cases page, there will be a set of test cases focused on ensuring that exchanged FHIR resources are structured in the expected format and that it contains the required information using the correct data types and valuesets, where specific valuesets are defined as required in the CA Core+ FHIR Implementation Guide, in alignment with the CACDI.

The following table provides the clinical data sets for testing. This data may support No-Peer and Peer-to-Peer testing.

Data from Other Vendors

During the Plugathon, you will be partnered with other vendor(s) for Peer-to-Peer testing. Vendors may send FHIR resources to each other and subsequently retrieve documents from each other. (e.g. Vendor A sends a Patient resource to Vendor B. Vendor A is then able to retrieve the Patient resource previously submitted to Vendor B.)

What problems does the CA Core+ solve?

Even in the age of digital health, system incompatibilities across the spectrum and a lack of data integration and portability at points of care mean that data is often “locked” in an individual system. This causes several issues:

1. Unless visiting their own family physician (where the bulk of primary data resides), most other healthcare episodes typically lack access to data, raising the risk of unintended side effects or adverse reactions and reducing quality of care unintentionally
2. Patient satisfaction suffers as expectations are not met due to extended waiting times for diagnosis, when information is either missing or inaccessible and at times inaccurate
3. Inefficiencies in care provision due to time required to locate information for clinicians already feeling burn-out
4. Inability for funders to receive reliable business intelligence to support the most effective funding decisions

When data language, common data elements and exchange methods are aligned and technical components are available, information can be shared quickly, efficiently, and easily whether within a region, a province, a country or international setting.

The Canadian Core Data for Interoperability (CACDI) defines a standardized set of essential health data elements and value sets in the context of a common data architecture to support interoperability and data exchange across the Canadian health care ecosystem. CA Core+ is the expression of the CACDI using HL7 FHIR, as an implementable technical data standard that will be common to all Canadian FHIR specifications.

To learn more about CA Core+, please visit the CA Core+ page on InfoScribe.

To learn more about the Canadian Core Data for Interoperability (CACDI), please visit the Connected Care page at CIHI.ca