Medication Prescription and Dispense (MPD), published by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE). This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IHE/pharm-mpd/tree/master and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Glossary

The following key terms are used throughout this specification and are part of the IHE Glossary:

• Medication Order - any type of order for medicinal products - can be a proposal, a draft, a plan, a prescription or an instance order / Administration Request.

• Prescription - an order given by a clinician (usually physicians and in some particular cases pharmacists, nurses, etc.), for a medication to be dispensed to the patient and given to or taken by the patient.

• Dispense - the act of assigning a medication to a patient, normally as indicated in the authorizing prescription.

  Note: in many cases, the "dispense process" entails more activities, such as preparation, packaging, transport, etc. These vary according to the scenario - community or hospital, unit dose or traditional dispensing,… while the single differentiation activity that defines a Dispense is the assignment of a product that was available, to a specific patient.

(This section will be updated wtih additional definitions)