Section 1e: Version 3 (V3)
Section 2: Clinical and Administrative Domains
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacy: Medication Dispense and Supply Event, R2
DESCRIPTION
The Medication Dispense and Supply Event topic contains interactions that can be used to exchange information regarding the processing of prescriptions, usually by a pharmacy, including the pick-up of prescribed medication by the patient or a representative. It also covers cases where medication is sold ‘over the counter’ (i.e. not based on a prescription), but still needs to be recorded in a patient’s medical record. Finally, it supports information exchange for bulk supplies of medication (not tied to a specific patient).
This revision of the initial topic extends existing messaging for Dispense and Supply to cover Institutional settings. Since the 1st normative ballot of January 2013, numerous editorial and formatting issues have been addressed, walkthroughs were updated, and extraneous diagram fixes, broken links, and other database-related corrections were made.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Pharmacy: Medication Dispense and Supply Event, R2 may also go by the following names or acronyms:
TARGETS
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
- Pharmaceutical Vendors
- EHR, PHR Vendors
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
- Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health)
- Architectures with a centralized repository (like the one in Canada) or Health Information Exchanges (HIE)
- Cases where pharmacies report dispenses independently (like in the Netherlands)
BENEFITS
- Enables V3 messaging in the Pharmacy Domain for medication dispense and supply event in community and institutional settings
- Provides implementers the ability to electronically exchange data regarding the processing of prescriptions as well as the use of medications by patients
- Offers healthcare systems using the provided interactions a more complete picture of a patient’s drug use
IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES
- Predecessors of this standard have been implemented in Canada and the Netherlands
- Specifications in this topic are based on input from several countries, most notably Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and France
DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND
They support both cases where processing and pick-up of prescriptions are separate events, and cases where they are reported as one event. Release 1 of this standard is based on community use cases (i.e. where the dispense occurs by a community pharmacy, directly to the patient or a representative). Coverage of institutional use cases is intended for a future release.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
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TOPIC
- Pharmacy
BALLOT TYPE
- Normative
STATUS DATE
2014-05-13RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP
PRODUCT TYPE
- ANSI-approved
STAKEHOLDERS
- Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
- EHR, PHR Vendors
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Healthcare Institutions
- Pharmaceutical Vendors
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
FAMILY
- V3
CURRENT STATE
- Stable
REALM
- Universal