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Intended Audience

The intended audiences of this document are business and technical implementers who are interested in retrieving provider information from the Ontario Health Provincial Health and Services Directory. The readers are expected to understand the business and technical requirements for querying and receiving health care provider & service information from the PHSD.

The audience for this specification includes Ontario Health programs and any other organizations implementing the specifications contained in this guide. This includes technical and business audiences who will use it to develop implementations and to validate that they conform to the specifications and to the requirements of stakeholder organizations.

Readers are expected to understand the RESTful paradigm and have some basic understanding of HL7 FHIR R4.