Québec Health Record
Available information in the Quebec Health record
Health information
Only the information provided for by the Act respecting the sharing of certain health information can be collected by the Québec Health Record (QHR).
It is organized into six clinical domains:
- Medication domain
- Available information
- Medications prescribed or sold under pharmaceutical control and dispensed in community pharmacies.
- Medications administered in outpatient oncology clinics:
- Medications recognized by Health Canada,
- Medications in Health Canada's Special Access Program,
- Research protocol medications.
- Available information
Data on medications administered in outpatient oncology clinics in all hospital centres will soon be available in the QHR. At this time, this data is only available to certain users.
- Laboratory domain
- Available information
- The results of laboratory tests done in an institution or a private medical biology laboratory in Québec.
- Available information
- Medical imaging
- Available information
- The results of medical imaging examinations done in an institution or a private general medical imaging or medical diagnostic radiology laboratory.
- Available information
- Immunization domain
- Forthcoming
- Vaccines administered in Québec.
- Forthcoming
- Allergy and intolerancedomain
- Forthcoming
- Allergies and intolerances.
- Forthcoming
- Hospitalization domain
- Forthcoming
- The hospitalization summary sheet written by the attending physician after a hospital stay.
- Forthcoming
To find out how long a body has been communicating health information to the QHR, see the list of medical imaging sites connected to the Québec Health Record (in French only).
System and registers
In addition to the six clinical domains, there is a system and several registers that collect other information.
- An electronic prescription management system for medication that allows the health professional you consult to send prescriptions to the pharmacist who will fill the prescription;
- A register of users, where information about each user’s identity is kept;
- A register of providers, where information about health and social services professionals is kept;
- A register of bodies, where information about bodies and facilities that provide health and social services is kept;
- A register of refusals that is used to manage refusals to allow information to be released through the DSQ.
Last update: May 6, 2021