Vision and Objectives

Vision

A Pan-Canadian, LOINC-based document classification system that is:

• clinically intuitive,
• interoperable across jurisdictions,
• flexible for local implementation,
• sustainable and governed collaboratively.

Objectives

• Enable accurate, fast document exchange among hospitals, clinics, and repositories, even across different jurisdictions or provinces.
• Reduce administrative burden for clinicians and medical office assistants (MOAs) who are currently classifying documents by hand
• Support FHIR DocumentReference.type
• Provide a foundation for AI training, retrieval, and summarization
• Avoid the reinvention of document taxonomies by each jurisdiction