1 Scope
This Technical Specification defines the required characteristics for any MPD-system
to support use cases in healthcare.
These characteristics include the medication concepts , identifiers and relationships to form a kind of structure that supports the use cases.
In order to support the use cases, an MPD-system needs to:
• be comprehensive and exhaustive as far as possible – unless all medicinal products that are in scope are included, other systems cannot fully rely on the MPD-system
to supply the necessary information, and some amount of duplicated registration of
information will still be necessary;
• contain the information in a consistent and appropriate structure according to the
ISO IDMP Standards (as described in this Technical Specification) and with an appropriate
level of detail.
Outside the scope of this Technical Specification are:
• the functionality of health, clinical and/or pharmacy systems;
• the other kinds of content of health, clinical or pharmacy systems that are needed
to support the whole process of healthcare providers, like:
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