Health Information Standards (HIS) Resources for COVID-19

Last updated on July 19, 2023

The COVID-19 crisis presents an unprecedented need to share standards-based health information to support direct patient care, patient screening, public health reporting and research. Using standards within the health sector helps facilitate effective interoperability strategies.

The ministry’s Health Information Standards team has compiled the following resources to support the sharing of data and information related to COVID-19:

Provincial

National

International

Note: Edits will be made to this list of resources as new information becomes available.

Provincial Resources

BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)

Clinical resource

Clinical care information 

COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in Canada

BC Provincial Government

British Columbia’s response to COVID-19

B.C. Health Concerns and Diagnosis SNOMED mapping

HealthLink BC: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

BC Family Doctors

Doctors of BC

Billing in time of COVID-19

COVID-19 Updates / Resources

 

National Resources
DISCLAIMER: The links and any associated artifacts contain resources and third-party websites related to the COVID-19 pandemic called the materials. The materials are subject to change and the B.C Ministry of Health is not responsible in any manner for content referenced in those third-party sites. The links and resources are provided "as is" without warranties or conditions of any kind either expressed or implied, and do not imply an endorsement by the ministry.

Canada Health Infoway (CHI)

CHI COVID-19 standards

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

ICD-10-CA/CCI COVID-19 Episodes of Care

Canadian Coding Standards for Version 2022 ICD-10-CA and CCI - Addendum: Pandemics and Epidemics (COVID-19) (cihi.ca)

ESRI Canada- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources

Canadian Provinces COVID-19 Dashboards

Government of Canada

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

COVID-19 Epidemiological summary

COVID-19 Vaccines

Drug and vaccine authorizations for COVID-19

 

International Resources
DISCLAIMER: The links and any associated artifacts contain resources and third-party websites related to the COVID-19 pandemic called the materials. The materials are subject to change and the B.C Ministry of Health is not responsible in any manner for content referenced in those third-party sites. The links and resources are provided "as is" without warranties or conditions of any kind either expressed or implied, and do not imply an endorsement by the ministry.

HL7 International

COVID-19 Related Projects

Index - FHIR v5.0.0

Logica Health

COVID-19 Interoperability Project

Logica FHIR implementation guide

LOINC

Guidance for mapping to SARS-CoV-2 LOINC terms

LOINC COVID-19 Terms

SNOMED International

COVID-19 Data Coding using SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT COVID-19 Related Content

World Health Organization (WHO)

Coronavirus disease technical guidance

ICD codes for COVID-19 disease outbreak

Last updated: July 2023