Baseline Canadian FHIR Profiles - Medications & Immunizations Stream Calls

Thank you everyone who attended our inaugural Medications & Immunizations Stream Calls. For now, we'll be documenting our discussions using a Google Docs spreadsheet , but will consider alternatives in the future. Below please find the minutes from this call.

Participants: Igor, Melva, Bev, Dean, Alam, Shamil, Smita, Harsh, Lori (Lori will join again when we start working on Immunization profiles)

• Discussion of the scope, parking lot, approach, reference materials. Initial discussion of the use of "Must Support" and Medication Code valuesets options.
• Current Canadian FHIR based Projects: PrescribeIT, Ontario DHDR
• Need to find a balance between defining guideline to help new Canadian FHIR projects and avoiding constraints that wouldn't work for future use cases.
• Current Scope: Clinical use cases. We will start with Medications and will move to Immunizations later.
• Parking Lot: Billing (TBD), Inventory, Devices (HL7 is working on Device Request vs prescription workflow)
• We will add MedicationDispense. We might decide to add MedicationAdministration and MedicationKnowledge too.
• Terminology preference: CCDD, but some projects might need deprecated DINs for legacy/historical data.
• Need to support compound drugs.
• Potentially, would need to define a huge overarching valueset that would include all CCDD Manufactured Product (MP), Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product (NTP), Therapeutic Moiety (TM) codes as well as Health Canada NPN codes."

This is a great suggestion. Thank you Joginder.

Hi Igor. Just a suggestion to provide feedback to the HL7 Public Health Work Group if there are deficiencies with the base immunization-related resources - either via HL7 Jira or to the Public Health WG listserv. As well it would be good to share with the PHWG any extensions to the base resources that come out of this activity.

I know there is some US profiling and modelling activities are are occurring at this time as well.

Dear FHIR Implementers,

You are welcome to join the Zoom calls of the Baseline Canadian FHIR Profiles - Medications Stream.

We will be meeting on Mondays at noon-1pm eastern time, starting on November 25.

We are going to start working on the Medications related profiles first, and then move to the Immunizations related profiles.