Join us on October 31st at noon for a walk-through of the Innovation Lab with a focus on how Health Level Seven's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (HL7®FHIR®) standard is enabling data exchange through the use of modern web service application programming interfaces (APIs). We will provide an explanation of what APIs are, why FHIR APIs differ from previous HL7 v2.x integrations within the healthcare space, and a demo of eHealth Ontario's Innovation Lab.

Please register for the webinar here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-hl7-fhir-to-enable-digital-health-information-in-ontario-tickets-75714964497

We look forward to your participation!

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On October 24th, 2019 join us for the ONE Access Gateway Transport webinar.

eHealth Ontario is developing a new specification to support applications access to EHR data through the Application Program Interfaces (APIs) published via the ONE Access Provider Gateway. ONE Access Provider Gateway is a modernized platform for enabling the integration of provider facing applications with provincial clinical repositories and registries in a secure and reliable manner. The ONE Access Provider Gateway will support authorized provider applications to access provincial clinical repositories, which contain information from various domains, such as Laboratory, Medication, Diagnostic Imaging, Immunization and Acute and Community Care data. It will also support access to provincial registries data contained in the Provincial Client Registry (PCR), and Provincial Provider Registry (PPR) in a secure and reliable manner.

Click here to download the specification - https://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/en/standards/view/one-access-gateway-transport-specification

Please contact architecture@ehealthontario.on.ca for more information

On Oct 22nd, 2019 join us for the ONE ID OAuth/OpenID webinar -

eHealth Ontario is developing a new specification document that will provide application developers with step-by-step instructions to implement OAuth2 flows for integration with EHR Services. The specification contains a general overview of OpenID Connect (OIDC) and the way it should be set up and used with the ONE ID Provincial Federation Model. The document builds upon OAuth2 and OpenID specifications by detailing the attributes and values necessary for participation in ONE ID federation.

Click here to download the specification - https://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/en/standards/view/one-id-openid-connect-specification

Contact architecture@ehealthontario.on.ca for further information

Celebrate World Standards Day with us Discover how virtual standards create a global stage

Join us on October 17th from noon – 1pm, for a special one-hour live webcast celebrating World Standards Day. Hear experts discuss the benefits of using virtual care to have secure, real-time interactive health care experiences for home and community care and for cancer care.

This year’s live stream event will highlight the importance of virtual standards to enable a patients ability to self manage care.

Ontario Health’s Bill Hatanaka, eHealth Ontario’s Sue Schneider will be joined by Sandra Mierdel (Ontario Telemedicine Network) and Stephanie Woodward (Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation).

Register Here!

Continuing education credits for participating health informatics and health information management professionals are available.

The DHDR lite service in the test harness is now back online.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Please note the Innovation Lab services will be unavailable due to a planned outage starting Friday July 12th, ending end of business Monday Jul 15th.

An update will be posted once all services have been restored.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Why can't I run the diagnostic report call for this patient: 2900000684

The result is:

{
  "Content": "",
  "Errors": [
     {
      "Number": 9999,
      "Severity": "Error",
      "Message": "Unable to process message",
      "Details": [""]
     }
    ]
}

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Hello,

Any rough estimate on when the issue will be resolved?

What expectancy should we have that the lite services will be up and available normally unless otherwise noted? For example, should we base commonly run tests off of these calls?

What is the "Immunization PIN" described here? https://www.innovation-lab.ca/preparing-immunization-pin/ Where is it documented?

Public OIID sample for DHIR doesn't appear to be working. In the "send lite message utility" I simply get "A problem was encountered when processing the request. Please contact the administrator." and when performing the call myself, all requests are returned 403.

Is there an issue there currently?

The Service Agreement Status links are wrong. The Test Harness "send lite message utility" uses the value "https://innovation-lab.ca/media/1147/innovation-lab-terms-of-use.pdf" where as the links are to "https://www.innovation-lab.ca/media/1147/innovation-lab-terms-of-use.pdf". If you use the latter, then you get the message:

{
"resourceType": "OperationOutcome",
"id": "validationFail",
"meta": "",
"text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "Request failed validation. You have not adhered to our message specification regarding the license agreement acknowledgement. See here: https://innovation-lab.ca/using-sender-identifiers"
},
"issue": [{
        "severity": "error",
        "code": "value",
        "details": {
            "text": "Request failed validation. You have not adhered to our message specification regarding the license agreement acknowledgement. See here: https://innovation-lab.ca/using-sender-identifiers"
        },
        "diagnostics": null,
        "location": null
    }
]
}

(which doesn't seem to properly confirm to OperationOutcome as per the FHIR spec). If the only difference is the inclusion or exclusion of "www", shouldn't this be more forgiving and shouldn't the links on the test harness page match through the tests?

Please note the Innovation Lab services will be unavailable due to a planned outage starting Friday September 28th, ending end of business October 3rd.

An update will be posted once all services have been restored.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Hi, Following this link : https://www.innovation-lab.ca/ontario-laboratories-information-system I see URL for Lite Test Services, but not for Full Test Services. What's the URL for Full Test Services?

Thanks!

https://www.innovation-lab.ca/submitting-olis-messages/

What exactly should I use to digitally sign my hl7 request? In the above link, it says "Digitally sign the Request message using a PKCS#7 format signature using a cryptographic toolkit.", but no specifics on which PKCS signature I should use to sign. Thanks in advance.

I have tried a few ways to sign the message. I have tried to use OpenSSL to sign the request message (datafile) with a combination of my private key and the certificate.pem (keyandcertfile) with the following command:

openssl cms -in datafile -sign -signer keyandcertfile -nodetach -outform pem|der

I then used the output of that file, base64 encode that and then send the request to the endpoint with no luck.

EDIT: The server is now responding with Unsupported Message Type (HL7 Error #200) with this HL7 message:

MSH|^~\&|^2.16.840.1.113883.3.59.1:4004^ISO|194cd1ca-da5f-4c23-a324-87a44f67c6a0|^OLIS^X500||200506 01134500-0400||SPQ^Z01^SPQQ08|5b6046b3-54e9-4f24-8e8d-f784d283d41b|P|2.3.1||||||8859/1 ZSH|123976456|John Henry Everyman SPR|QRYTAG123|R|ZQryLabInfoForPatientID^^HL70471|@OBR.22^20020101000000-0400~@PID.3.1^6948425589~@PID.8^F~@PID.7^19940115~@ZRP.1.1^926279~@ZRP.1.13^MDL~@ZRP.1.22.1^ON~@ZRP.1.22.3^HL70347~@ZRP.1.2^Richards~@ZRP.1.3^Reed~@ZRP.1.4

Hello innovators!

We are pleased to invite you to a one-hour open review webinar session that will provide information regarding the Provincial Client Registry HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide on June 26th from 12:00-1:00pm.

Background:

The Provincial Client Registry (PCR) aggregates demographic data and identifiers from participating healthcare organizations across the province to provide a comprehensive source of patient identity and demographic information. Identifiers and demographics maintained in the PCR are used by EHR services to associate health information with the appropriate patient, and to enable healthcare provider access to a patient’s complete EHR.

The PCR HL7 FHIR material includes:

• PCR HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide

• Terminology value sets

• Sample messages

The open review comment period will take place from June 20-July 19. Information on how to provide comments will be included in the webinar.

The link to access the PCR HL7 FHIR Specification can be found here:

https://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/en/standards/view/provincial-client-registry-fhir/

Contact architecture@ehealthontario.on.ca for questions.

Presenters:

Fang Cao, Senior Standards Analyst, eHealth Ontario Yaron Derman, Manager Standards, eHealth Ontario Michael Conde, Manager Product Management Registries, eHealth Ontario Duncan Johnstone, Lead Business Systems Registries, eHealth Ontario

Teleconference & WebEx:

https://ehealthontario.webex.com/ehealthontario/j.php?MTID=m400c47d1dd10b909e8023b4a16dc9629

Local:416-212-8011 TFN#1 866-602-5461 Conference ID:6302256#

Please note the Innovation Lab services will be unavailable due to a planned outage starting Friday March 9th at 5:00pm.

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