CaOnLicensePhysician Naming system

Status: draft · 1.26.0 · JSON

Identifies an Ontario physician's licence number: the registration number the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) assigns to a licensed physician. Values are the College's own and are assigned by the College -- this specification neither mints nor validates them, and a number that is well formed is not thereby a number in good standing. A practitioner without one is normal and conformant: a nurse practitioner, a registered nurse, a medical office assistant and an administrative user all hold none, which is why every slice carrying it is optional. WRITE https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician AND READ ALL FOUR ADDRESSES BELOW. Canada Health Infoway's Canadian URI Registry publishes that URI as the preferred identifier for this namespace, alongside the OID 2.16.840.1.113883.4.347 and a registered alias at https://ehealthontario.ca/API/FHIR/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician. Two further addresses carry the same numbers in real data and are published by no registry: http://ehealthontario.ca/API/FHIR/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician, which is the historical write shape of this platform and survives in OntarioMD's HRM specification, and http://infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician, which Ontario's own e-referral package uses. THE CHOICE OF WRITE URI IS ONTARIO HEALTH'S, NOT THIS SPECIFICATION'S: its identifier policy separates global identifier namespaces from its own local ones, assigns the global base to Infoway, and classifies the CPSO licence under that base -- and its ONE ID specification maps CPSO to the same URI in its list of valid licensing authorities. No URI here is derived from another and no suffix, scheme or substring rule relates them, so a reader resolving only one silently misses every practitioner whose number was written under the rest. Treat a value found under any of them as one licence number held under one authority, not as several identifiers.

Type	Value	Preferred
uri	https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician	true
oid	2.16.840.1.113883.4.347	true
uri	urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.347	false
uri	https://ehealthontario.ca/API/FHIR/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician	false
uri	http://ehealthontario.ca/API/FHIR/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician	false
uri	http://infoway-inforoute.ca/fhir/NamingSystem/ca-on-license-physician	false