Pharmacy
Background
Mission
The Pharmacy Work Group (WG) supports the HL7 mission through the development of a set of medication-related artifacts that address the requirements of stakeholders. The requirements support processes such as prescribing/ordering, dispensing/supplying, and administering/using and in medication-related clinical decision support as well as when used to describe medications or medication knowledge.
Charter
This WG provides a forum for any stakeholder concerned with clinical content related to medication information, ordering, dispensing and administration.
The WG works with and provides medication content guidance/recommendations to other WGs. The Pharmacy WG will take into account the experience of groups outside of HL7 e.g., Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Pharmacy, NCPDP and ISO TC215 Work Group 6. Stakeholders include pharmacists, physicians and other clinicians, healthcare technology experts, vendors, regulators, healthcare strategic organizations e.g. Dutch National ICT Institute for Healthcare (Nictiz), US Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Canada Health Infoway, and Australian Digital Health Agency.
Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes
Specific work product ownership includes:
- HL7 FHIR® Resources – Medication, MedicationRequest, MedicationDispense, MedicationAdministration, MedicationUsage and MedicationKnowledge
- Pharmacy CDA Templates Implementation Guide
- HL7 V3 Medication artifacts
Formal Relationships With Other HL7 Groups
The Work Group collaborates with other Work Groups on specifications containing medication-related information:
- Orders & Observations (O&O)
- Patient Care
- Structured Documents
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Clinical Decision Support
- Clinical Quality Information
- Public Health
- FHIR-I
- Cross Group Projects
The Work Group works with Biomedical Research and Regulation (BR&R) to review and collaborate on the medication related FHIR resources that have overlapping scope and use:
- Medication,
- MedicationKnowledge,
- MedicinalProductDefinition,
- Ingredient,
- ClinicalUseIssue,
- PackagedProductDefinition,
- AdministrableProductDefinition and
- ManufacturedItemDefinition
Formal Relationship With Groups Outside of HL7
The WG will develop relations with appropriate national and standards bodies subject to the approval of the HL7 Board.
Specifically, the Pharmacy WG works with NCPDP under the HL7 Statement of Understanding.
The WG has informal relationships with the following groups outside of HL7:
- ISO TC215 Workgroup 6
- IHE Pharmacy
- GS1
2015 Work Group Health All-Star Award Winner
This WG earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in each of the three trimesters measured in 2015.
2016 Work Group Health All-Star Award Winner
This WG earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in each of the three trimesters measured in 2016.
2017 Work Group Health All-Star Award Winner
This WG earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in each of the three trimesters measured in 2017.
2018 Work Group Health All-Star Award Winner
This WG earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in each of the three trimesters measured in 2018.
2019 Work Group Health All-Star Award Winner
This WG earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in each of the three trimesters measured in 2019.
2020 May Work Group Health Gold Star Award Winner
This Work Group earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in May 2020.
2020 Work Group Health All-Star Award Winner
This WG earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in each of the three trimesters measured in 2020.
2021 May Work Group Health Gold Star Award Winner
This Work Group earned a WG Healthiest Star rating in May 2021.
Date of Last Revision
June 21, 2021