Pharm Tech Minutes 2015.06.19

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Friday, 19 June 2014, 9:00 CET

Chania General Hospital Meeting room number 300.15

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09:00 - 09:30 Welcome

• Participants:
  • Jacqueline Surugue
  • Stephane Spahni
  • Jurgen Brandstatter
  • Christoff Gessner
  • Michael Tan
  • Leonidas Tzimis
  • Marc Robberecht ( via Webex).
  • Angela Merzweiler ( via Webex).

• NCPDP update and alignment strategy
  • Memo of Understanding
  • NCPDP wishes to export their standards such as the RXnorm
  • could be opportunity for IHE Pharmacy to expand our profiles in the USA
  • could also be a threat because of unequal strength of organizations. NCPDP is a commercial company with their own employees.
  • Will they refer to an IHE standard? NCPDP will probably not wait for IHE if they need a standard.
  • IHE is not in favor to adopt the US standards and relabel it as a IHE Pharmacy profile.
  • Should focus on the long term cooperation and create understanding.
  • Also identify issues, double work, resolve differences
  • Explore what IHE and NCPDP could collaborate on.
  • Should IHE USA be involved? No, IHE USA is for the deployment. SDO should talk to SDO.
  • The focus group are the co-chairs plus Jacqueline.
  • IHE should write down our thoughts on the collaboration.

9:30 - 10:30 Supply of Healthcare Products

• White paper status
  • The white paper is published.
  • The document is quite large. Suggestion to move the use cases to a seperate section 2.( action Jose)
  • Conference calls will be scheduled biweekly.
  • A process step is the pre-order where the buyer asks a vendor for information.
  • This could also be used to inform satellite pharmacies to the central hospital supply.
  • On the normal order add the time limit as a functional requirement.
  • Matching with the invoice.
  • Also returning goods to the supplier.
    • Could lead to reimbursement of the invoice
    • Or replacement of the returned goods.
  • There are many variations in the flow. Be aware that this should remain flexible.
  • slides to be added to the minutes (action Jose)
  • FHIR resources from orders and observations needed to be more flexible and robust

10:30 - 11:15 Medication Documentation, and Management Concepts and Definitions

• Document "Medication Management Related Concepts and Definitions" (Michael/Stephen)
• File:MedicationManagementConcepts.docx

• Word-Doc version (with comments of Leonidas and Jose)

• ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Pharmacy/yr6_2014-2015/Technical_Committee/Whitepapers/MedicationManagement/MedicationManagementRelatedConceptsandDefinitions_2014.10.02_LTz.docx
• [1]

• • This document has gone into ballot at ISO TC215. It is an informative Technical Report
  • Comments should be submitted through ISO. They will forward it to the project leader (Michael).
  • Projectleader will form an expert group to discuss and resolve the comments.
  • Comments from Jose and Leonidas also need to be submitted through the normal procedure.
  • Michael will inform on the time lines and deadlines for the ballot comments.
• Jose will continue with the whitepaper of the medication data capture.
  • This document will also define which data to capture and how they are stored in various sources.
  • Jacqueline suggests to provide use cases.

11:30 - 12:00 Additions to CMPD - Workflows, statement and administration

• Document "Workflow MTP - PRE - DIS - PADV" ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Pharmacy/yr6_2014-2015/Technical_Committee/Profiles/MedicationTreatmentPlan,%20MTP/workflow%20MTP%20-%20PRE%20-%20DIS%20-%20PADV%20-%20discussion.pptx

• Discussion
• PML/PRE profile: representation of the (paper) prescription (multiple prescriptions together on the same document)
• Next steps (CPs)

• Medication Statements

• Medication Administration

13:30 - 14:30 Planning Committee review of strategy and vision

• Review of roadmap
  • Mission is to be visible as the institute to approach for knowledge on medication and pharmacy.
  • For example governments. IHE in general has little experience on discussions with governments.
  • Discussion about the position of HL7 Pharmacy versus IHE Pharmacy. We should not compete.
  • To get known IHE Pharmacy should put more effort in marketing.
  • Jose and Stephane are volunteering to write booklets (20 page document.) Introduction.
  • Jose will propose the chapters.
    • Stephane suggests to write on the topic of organizing en creating awareness.
  • Focus on European programs on e-Health. They are focussing on e-prescriptions.
  • Are we involved in EXPAND? We should be part of the SDO platform. Action Stephane and Christoff.
  • This topic will be carried further in a next call.
• Supply projects
  • A new block has been added for supply.
• Also see wiki on Strategy Planning
• Terminologies
  • IHE should also give advice on the use of terminologies, such as coding systems, identifiers and stucture indentification in pharnacy
  • Christoff volunteers to setup projects to give recomendations on terminologies to be used in deployment.

14:30 - 14:40 ISO/TC 215/WG6: DTS 17523 review

• has been set for ballot. The comments have been addressed.
• It will now go to FDIS ballot. Only editorial editing, not content.
• Next meeting of ISO will be in Bern in november.

14:40 - 15:20 Planning season 2015-2016

• The F2F in October will be planned on the 29 and 30 October (Side note ISO will be at 1 november). Prefered location Geneva.
• Combine the June F2F with e-Health week in Amsteredam? Explore 7th June a possible date for the Joint ISO-HL7 meeting. Action Michael
• The F2F of June could be in the week before or after. (for example 15/16 either in Netherlands or Austria).
• The F2F in February will depend on ITI intentions.
• The ballot starts after the comments have resolved.
• After that IHE Pharmacy will set it out for ballot.
• The periode for ballot could end in August.

15:20 - 15:20 Action items

Wrap up: Motion to send a thank you message to our sponsors. Decision: Motion approved unanimously.

15:20 - 15:30 Action items

• European affairs group will meet in Vienna Austria.
• Jacqueline will have less time for IHE Pharmacy meetings in 2016.
• Jose will send out an e-mail to thank our Greek colleague for hosting the IHE Pharmacy meeting in Chania.

15:30 Adjourn

Pharmacy Technical Committee