Use of FHIR APIs to Fight COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada
summary
Ontario builds FHIR APIs that ingest provincial lab diagnostic reports in near real time to create or update cases in the Case & Contact Management system and trigger contact tracing; patient matching uses the provincial client registry/EMPI via FHIR R4 to resolve missing health numbers; immunization submissions accept multi-record transaction bundles from clinics and pharmacies into the provincial repository; adverse events submit as composition bundles; lab retrieval and patient/provider portals are live, adverse‑event intake is in testing, proof‑of‑vaccine via SMART Health Cards is under development.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Objectives
- 1:47Business Need
- 5:04FHIR APIs
- 6:00Immunization API
- 8:51Immunization Submission API
- 10:45Adverse Event Submission API
- 13:58References
- 14:19Questions
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