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Pan-Canadian Standards provide the technical language and clinical terminology to enable the thousands of health care providers across the country to communicate and share health information in a consistent, safe and reliable manner. When used in eHealth solutions, these standards:

support members of the care team to accurately interpret and exchange information needed for safe and effective care
facilitate clinical decision support for alerts and reminders
enable data to be aggregated, with appropriate approvals, for clinical research, ultimately leading to better outcomes

Pan-Canadian Standards Inventory

This inventory includes all standards that have been designated as pan-Canadian Standard. These standards have gone through an open, transparent evaluation governed by jurisdictional representatives, clinicians, vendors and leading experts in standards and architecture. Pan-Canadian Standards can be internationally based, led by Infoway, or developed by external stakeholders for a specific Canadian initiative. A pan-Canadian Standard is any document or artifact established by pan-Canadian consensus.

Pan-Canadian Standard	Business Functions	Status*	Domain
Canadian Emergency Department Diagnosis Shortlist (CED-DxS)	Reporting of Emergency Department (ED) diagnoses in Canada Facilitates comparative reporting, identifies patient populations and describes demand for types of service	CAS	Emergency and Ambulatory care
Canadian Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC) Data Set	A suite of standardized clinical terms and concepts that reflect nursing practice and document patient outcomes in electronic health records	CAS	Cross-Domain
Client Registry Standard	Uniquely identifies a health care client within the health care system Supports the ability to query, add and update health care client demographics as required	CAS	Non-Clinical Registries
College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Protocols and the AJCC Cancer Staging Protocols	Facilitates the standardized electronic reporting of cancer pathology and staging data to provincial and territorial cancer registries	CAS	Cancer Pathology
DICOM	Standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. Enables the integration of scanners, servers, workstations, printers, and network hardware from multiple manufacturers into a picture archiving and communication system (PACS).	CAS	Diagnostic Imaging
Drug Standard	Prescribing Dispensing Adding other medication such as physician samples or over-the-counter medications Patient medication queries including contraindications that have previously been identified and managed Drug queries Checking contraindications such as drug-to-drug interactions, drug-to-allergy interactions or dosage checking Managing prescription status (e.g. prescriptions that are put on hold).	CAS	Medication Management
GS1 Global Location Number (GLN)	Enables legal entities (e.g. provincial health authorities, hospitals, manufacturers, etc.) and physical locations (e.g. a hospital wing or manufacturer's warehouse) to be uniquely identified in Canada and globally.	CAS	Cross-Domain
GS1 Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)	Enables products such as pharmaceuticals (prescription and over the counter products) and other products (e.g., medical devices, food products) to be uniquely identified in Canada and globally	CAS	Cross-Domain; Medication Management
Health Canada Drug Identification Number (DIN)	Identifies drug products when prescribing, dispensing and submitting financial claims	CAS	Medication Management
IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I)	Enables the discovery and retrieval of relevant diagnostic imaging documents (Image & Report) Distributing imaging documents to authorized users/systems across a group of affiliated enterprises (Affinity Domains)	CAS	Diagnostic Imaging
Interoperable EHR Standard	Supports clinical information-sharing generated primarily on the basis of clinical assessments. Includes: Clinical Observations Professional Services Health Conditions Care Compositions Allergy/Intolerance/Adverse Reaction Patient Note Clinical Documents (Discharge/Care Summary, Referral, Clinical Observation Document) EHR Clinical Summary/Profile	CDFU	Cross-Domain
interRAI Assessment Instruments	Support clinical practice by assessing persons across the continuum of care (in home and continuing care and mental health care settings), identifying preferences, needs and strengths of persons, and providing evidence-based information to support clinical decision-making Support health system uses such as clinical program management, health system management, and research	CAS	Cross-Domain
Laboratory Messaging Standard	Human: submit orders; query order status; access results; refer and redirect lab-to-lab orders Disciplines supported by the laboratory standard, but not limited to, are: clinical chemistry (e.g. glucose); hematology (eg. Hemoglobin); microbiology (e.g. urine culture); pathology (e.g. biopsy); (limited) transfusion medicine (blood group and antibody screening); Non-Human: supports sharing of non-human laboratory information between clinical laboratories; includes water, food, animal suspicious substances testing and environmental swabs in point-to-point interfaces that affect population health; activate or revise an order; access results.	CDFU/CAS	Laboratory
Pan-Canadian Master Terminology Worksheet and Messaging Artifacts	To support the pan-Canadian messaging standards, the following business and technical artifacts have been created: Master Terminology Worksheet (MTW): A human readable Excel file that provides links between the messaging artifacts and the terminology worksheet. It also includes the business rules to generate the allowable value set contents and URLs to the related code systems. It covers all messaging standard domains. Terminology Implementation Guide: Provides implementation, compliance and conformance guidelines for use in developing software that conforms to Infoway’s Message Specifications. The Implementation Guide has been available since Maintenance Release 2009. Vocabulary Model Interchange Format (MIF): Files that provide a way for computer systems to consume the information in the MTW. The MIF has been available since Maintenance Release 2009.	CDFU	Cross-Domain
National e-Claims (NeCST) Standards	Supports electronic claims management NeCST Standards currently support invoicing; predetermination, special authorization and statements of financial activity in the pharmacy, physio-chiro and vision lines of business, through defined messages.	CDFU	Claims
Pan-Canadian LOINC Observation Code Database (pCLOCD) Nomenclature Standard	Provides standardization for disparate lab tests across multiple organizations and platforms allowing for comparability and analysis of consolidated lab data Provides options for standardizing laboratory test names and reporting units across disparate lab systems for use in a consolidated system Facilitates semantic interoperability between disparate lab systems Supports all commonly used lab tests and the majority of tests done in specialty areas Supports both ordering and reporting lab tests	CAS	Laboratory
Provider Registry Standard	Uniquely identifies a health care provider within the health care system Supports queries, additions and updates to health care provider demographics	CAS	Non-Clinical Registries
Immunization Standard	Forecasting patient-specific immunization Recording immunization Accessing immunization history Determining jurisdictional immunization coverage Distributed immunization management	CDFU	Public Health
Service Delivery Location Registry Standard	Identifies a service delivery location within the health care system Supports the ability to query, add and update service delivery locations as required	CDFU	Non-Clinical Registries
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT)	SNOMED CT^® is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. The following clinical information groups outlined below have been approved CAS. Diagnosis Family history Genetic condition Non-drug agent adverse reaction Non-drug offending agent type Non-drug offending agent description risk factor Risk factor Clinical findings (health of symptom problem) Physical assessment findings Anatomical site Patient health problem	CAS	Cross-Domain
Transport Level Interoperability (TLI) Standard	Ensures that sensitive health care remains secure, non-repudiated and private when shared across systems Ensures reliable and efficient end-to-end communication of health care information Routes and dispatches health care information to appropriate sources/systems Handles exceptions experienced during information exchange Leverages Service Oriented Architecture transport features	CAS	Infostructure

* Status Definitions

Canadian Draft for Use (CDFU) - The standard has been developed but it may or may not be implemented or be in use. The standard is considered ready to be used by early adopters: however, change is probable as stakeholders begin using the standard in implementations.

Canadian Approved Standards (CAS) - The standard is in use for the purpose(s) or context(s) for which it was intended. Only those parts of the standard that have been implemented or are in use can progress for consideration as CAS. This decision point signifies that the standard has reached a level of stability and is comprehensive enough such that major changes are not expected.

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Pan-Canadian Standards Inventory

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