PHARM Strategic Planning
This page documents the activities of the IHE Pharmacy (PHARM) domain in doing strategic planning.
Strategic Priorities
The PHARM domain currently plans to work in the following areas:
- Promote widespread adoption and implementation of IHE PHARM-developed profiles
- Improve information exchange between healthcare providers and organizations that depend on Pharmacy related workflows and processes
- Develop ways to automate collaborative workflow between physicians and pharmacists in both community and hospital pharmacy environment
- Marketing and promoting the profiles in regions outside of Europe (US, Canada, Asia, Latin America, etc.)
- Reaching out for national Pharmacy programs in order to learn requirements and demands which lead to developments within IHE Pharmacy
- Establishing and maintaining collaboration to other IHE domains
- Establishing and maintaining collaboration to HL7 Pharmacy
- Establishing and maintaining collaboration to ISO TC215 WG6 Pharmacy
- Establishing communication channel to NCPDP
Capabilities
The PHARM domain has defined the following categories to organize the profiles it has published so far.
| Capabilities | Description | PHARM profiles (2013) |
|---|---|---|
| Community Pharmacy | Profiles in the Community Pharmacy category support the ability to handle the entire workflow from the act of the prescription of a medication to the dispense of the medication to the patient (e.g. at a pharmacy) in a non-hospital environment (primary care). This includes the ability to submit, locate/list and retrieve patient specific prescription, pharmaceutical advice and dispense information, which is entirely based on the HL7 CDA standard. | CMPD, PRE, PADV, DIS |
| Hospital Pharmacy | Profiles in the Hospital Pharmacy category support the ability to handle the entire workflow from the act of the prescription of a medication to the administration of the medication to the patient (e.g. by a nurse) in a hospital environment, which is entirely based on HL7 v2 messaging standards. | HMW |
Categories
The PHARM domain has identified the following areas of expertise and weaknesses.
| Category | Areas of expertise | Areas of outreach |
|---|---|---|
| Common | Medication Documentation, Medication formulary | HL7 Pharmacy, ISO TC215 WG6, International |
| Community Pharmacy | Medication Prescription and Dispense workflow, HL7 CDA, HL7 Pharmacy CMETs, European epSOS project | HL7 Pharmacy, epSOS, International |
| Hospital Pharmacy | Pharmacy workflow in hospital environment, Distribution and supply of items, HL7v2 messaging | HL7 Pharmacy, International |
PHARM Liaisons
The following table describes the liaisons from PHARM to other IHE domains.
Domain Committee Liaison Reports
| Domain | Liaison |
|---|---|
| Information Technology Infrastructure (ITI) | Jürgen Brandstätter |
| Patient Care Devices (PCD) | Not yet assigned |
| Patient Care Coordination (PCC) | Not yet assigned |
| Quality, Research, Public Health (QRPH)* | |
| Radiology (RAD)* | |
| Laboratory (LAB)* |
Note: Domains marked with * have been identified for future liaisons