eCTAS Environments

There are two distinct eCTAS environments that users may need to access: Production and Conformance. Each environment is comprised of the Clinical Application and the Administration Console. The Production environment is the live environment and is the only environment permitted to contain real Personal Health Information (PHI). The Conformance environment may be used for conformance testing or training and should never contain real patient data.

An environment label appears in the header of the Clinical Application and the Administration Console to indicate which environment the user is logged into: Production or Conformance. The distinct purpose of each environment and their respective applications are summarized in the table below.

Note: Access to environments and application features are granted to users by the facility's eCTAS Facility Role Administrator (FRA). FRAs should be familiar with the purpose of environments and application features; they will need to distribute links and support materials to hospital resources. See eCTAS User Roles to see what features are granted per role and applicability per integration.

Important: All users must accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) once per environment, only then can their FRA can assign them a site and role, see eCTAS User Account Setup Process.

Environments	Application	URL	Purpose
Production (LIVE SYSTEM)	Clinical Application	https://ectas.ccohealth.ca	Used by triage nurses to triage real patients Access clinical application Contains real patient data
Production (LIVE SYSTEM)	Administration Console	https://ectas-admin.ccohealth.ca	Used by resources to access features such as: Site Role Management, Registration View, Site Level Extracts, HL7 Viewer Contains real patient data
Conformance (TRAINING & CONFORMANCE TESTING)	Clinical Application	https://confectas-spa.ccohealth.ca/	Used to train nurses on the clinical application using fake patient data only Used for conformance testing using fake patient data only Should never contain real patient data
Conformance (TRAINING & CONFORMANCE TESTING)	Administration Console	https://confectas-admin.ccohealth.ca	Used to train resources on how to use features (i.e. Site Role Management, Registration View, Site Level Extracts, HL7 Viewer) using fake patient data only Used for conformance testing using fake patient data only Should never contain real patient data