The Medication Card document describes the current medication of a patient, medications (MORE) that have been, is or will be taken by the patient.
- IPAG report: eCurrentMedication, different view
- IHE Pharmacy Technical Framework Supplement: Community Medication List (PML)
This exchange format is defined as a document type that corresponds to a Bundle as a FHIR resource. A Bundle has a list of entries. The first entry is the Composition, in which all contained entries are then referenced.
The representation of the Medication Card document SHALL be embedded as a PDF in PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-2 format. The required elements in the PDF correspond to the minimum data set in the IPAG report. In the FHIR profiles, the flag mustSupport is set to true for these elements.
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