A realistic account of what a Canadian nurse triage platform changes and what it does not. Why the capacity gap is not a software problem, which two effects are real, and how to evaluate any vendor claiming more.
FHIR R5 is the current published release but R4 carries most live traffic. How HL7's own version management policy and maturity model tell you which parts of a migration are safe, and why concurrent operation beats a cutover in clinical systems.
New Brunswick's Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act defines custodian and agent, and regulates storage outside Canada. Why the custodian/agent distinction, not PIPEDA, is the first question for any health software built for a Canadian province.
The DIN and the NDC are separate identifier systems with no shared key, and RxNorm normalizes US vocabularies specifically. Why medication data is the hardest part of porting health software into Canada, and how to model around it.
Canadian Medicare removed the price at the point of care but not the queue. Why coverage and capacity are separate problems, why the Canada Health Act already anticipated this, and where triage actually moves the needle.
The real difference between US and Canadian health care is not free versus paid. It is which barrier stops you: cost in one system, waiting in the other. What each law actually promises, and what neither one covers.