The Medication Profile is based upon the core FHIR Medication Resource

Provides a textual description of the strength of the active ingredient(s) in the medication

Given the lack of an existing superset of Canadian codes and the complexity and variation in code systems used by of prescription ordering and medication & natural product dispensing systems - The Canadian Baseline has chosen to model the variety of coding systems expected in existing systems through an open slice on code.coding. When a super value set is developed, the CA Baseline will update the preferred binding strength that currently points to a placeholder to align to the new value set.

TBD. This is a placeholder for a comprehensive valueset, consisting of all Manufactured Product (MP), Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product (NTP) and Therapeutic Moiety (TM) codes, which would be created and maintained by Canada Health Infoway. Medicinal products for prescribing and dispensing in Canada. The content of this subset only contains commonly used medicinal products that are available for prescribing and dispensing in Canada. This content will expand to include all human medicinal products over time.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: either text or at least one coding or both have to be present

If set to true, indicates that the medication code sent was chosen as a representative code of a drug picked at a more general level. I.e. The user didn't actually choose this specific code. The intended constraints around what drug should be supplied are conveyed by the request's substitution rules.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: either text or at least one coding or both have to be present

CA Baseline Usage Notes: This is a reference to an organization that manufactures the medication. TBD: if there is a need to refernce a 'DPD Company', a new extension should be created and used. A 'DPD Company' name, as used in the Health Canada DPF, indicates the organisation (company) that holds the authorization to place the product on the market in Canada. This may not be the company that has manufactured the product, but it is the company that holds the legal responsibility for the use of the product in Canada and should be the same as the company named on the product label/packaging.

CA Core Usage Notes: The prescription drug form is required in some provinces in order to meet the prescribing standards set out by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The codes SHOULD be taken from DispensableDrugForm
(preferred to https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/dispensabledrugform)

TBD. This is a placeholder for a comprehensive valueset, which would be created and maintained by Canada Health Infoway.

The Medication Profile is based upon the core FHIR Medication Resource

A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed, and which must be understood when processing the content. Often, this is a reference to an implementation guide that defines the special rules along with other profiles etc.

Asserting this rule set restricts the content to be only understood by a limited set of trading partners. This inherently limits the usefulness of the data in the long term. However, the existing health eco-system is highly fractured, and not yet ready to define, collect, and exchange data in a generally computable sense. Wherever possible, implementers and/or specification writers should avoid using this element. Often, when used, the URL is a reference to an implementation guide that defines these special rules as part of it's narrative along with other profiles, value sets, etc.

An Extension

Provides a textual description of the strength of the active ingredient(s) in the medication

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource and that modifies the understanding of the element that contains it and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer is allowed to define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions.

Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself).

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions.

A code (or set of codes) that specify this medication, or a textual description if no code is available. Usage note: This could be a standard medication code such as a code from RxNorm, SNOMED CT, IDMP etc. It could also be a national or local formulary code, optionally with translations to other code systems.

Given the lack of an existing superset of Canadian codes and the complexity and variation in code systems used by of prescription ordering and medication & natural product dispensing systems - The Canadian Baseline has chosen to model the variety of coding systems expected in existing systems through an open slice on code.coding. When a super value set is developed, the CA Baseline will update the preferred binding strength that currently points to a placeholder to align to the new value set.

TBD. This is a placeholder for a comprehensive valueset, consisting of all Manufactured Product (MP), Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product (NTP) and Therapeutic Moiety (TM) codes, which would be created and maintained by Canada Health Infoway. Medicinal products for prescribing and dispensing in Canada. The content of this subset only contains commonly used medicinal products that are available for prescribing and dispensing in Canada. This content will expand to include all human medicinal products over time.

An Extension

A reference to a code defined by a terminology system.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: either text or at least one coding or both have to be present

Allows for alternative encodings within a code system, and translations to other code systems.

If set to true, indicates that the medication code sent was chosen as a representative code of a drug picked at a more general level. I.e. The user didn't actually choose this specific code. The intended constraints around what drug should be supplied are conveyed by the request's substitution rules.

The identification of the code system that defines the meaning of the symbol in the code.

The URI may be an OID (urn:oid:...) or a UUID (urn:uuid:...). OIDs and UUIDs SHALL be references to the HL7 OID registry. Otherwise, the URI should come from HL7's list of FHIR defined special URIs or it should reference to some definition that establishes the system clearly and unambiguously.

Need to be unambiguous about the source of the definition of the symbol.

A symbol in syntax defined by the system. The symbol may be a predefined code or an expression in a syntax defined by the coding system (e.g. post-coordination).

Need to refer to a particular code in the system.

A human language representation of the concept as seen/selected/uttered by the user who entered the data and/or which represents the intended meaning of the user.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: either text or at least one coding or both have to be present

The codes from the terminologies do not always capture the correct meaning with all the nuances of the human using them, or sometimes there is no appropriate code at all. In these cases, the text is used to capture the full meaning of the source.

A code to indicate if the medication is in active use.

This status is intended to identify if the medication in a local system is in active use within a drug database or inventory. For example, a pharmacy system may create a new drug file record for a compounded product "ABC Hospital Special Cream" with an active status. At some point in the future, it may be determined that the drug record was created with an error and the status is changed to "entered in error". This status is not intended to specify if a medication is part of a particular formulary. It is possible that the drug record may be referenced by multiple formularies or catalogues and each of those entries would have a separate status.

A coded concept defining if the medication is in active use.

Describes the details of the manufacturer of the medication product. This is not intended to represent the distributor of a medication product.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: This is a reference to an organization that manufactures the medication. TBD: if there is a need to refernce a 'DPD Company', a new extension should be created and used. A 'DPD Company' name, as used in the Health Canada DPF, indicates the organisation (company) that holds the authorization to place the product on the market in Canada. This may not be the company that has manufactured the product, but it is the company that holds the legal responsibility for the use of the product in Canada and should be the same as the company named on the product label/packaging.

Describes the form of the item. Powder; tablets; capsule.

CA Core Usage Notes: The prescription drug form is required in some provinces in order to meet the prescribing standards set out by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The codes SHOULD be taken from For example codes, see DispensableDrugForm http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-form-codes
(preferred to https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/dispensabledrugform)

TBD. This is a placeholder for a comprehensive valueset, which would be created and maintained by Canada Health Infoway.

The Medication Profile is based upon the core FHIR Medication Resource

The logical id of the resource, as used in the URL for the resource. Once assigned, this value never changes.

The only time that a resource does not have an id is when it is being submitted to the server using a create operation.

The metadata about the resource. This is content that is maintained by the infrastructure. Changes to the content might not always be associated with version changes to the resource.

A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed, and which must be understood when processing the content. Often, this is a reference to an implementation guide that defines the special rules along with other profiles etc.

Asserting this rule set restricts the content to be only understood by a limited set of trading partners. This inherently limits the usefulness of the data in the long term. However, the existing health eco-system is highly fractured, and not yet ready to define, collect, and exchange data in a generally computable sense. Wherever possible, implementers and/or specification writers should avoid using this element. Often, when used, the URL is a reference to an implementation guide that defines these special rules as part of it's narrative along with other profiles, value sets, etc.

The base language in which the resource is written.

Language is provided to support indexing and accessibility (typically, services such as text to speech use the language tag). The html language tag in the narrative applies to the narrative. The language tag on the resource may be used to specify the language of other presentations generated from the data in the resource. Not all the content has to be in the base language. The Resource.language should not be assumed to apply to the narrative automatically. If a language is specified, it should it also be specified on the div element in the html (see rules in HTML5 for information about the relationship between xml:lang and the html lang attribute).

A human language.

A human-readable narrative that contains a summary of the resource and can be used to represent the content of the resource to a human. The narrative need not encode all the structured data, but is required to contain sufficient detail to make it "clinically safe" for a human to just read the narrative. Resource definitions may define what content should be represented in the narrative to ensure clinical safety.

Contained resources do not have narrative. Resources that are not contained SHOULD have a narrative. In some cases, a resource may only have text with little or no additional discrete data (as long as all minOccurs=1 elements are satisfied). This may be necessary for data from legacy systems where information is captured as a "text blob" or where text is additionally entered raw or narrated and encoded information is added later.

These resources do not have an independent existence apart from the resource that contains them - they cannot be identified independently, and nor can they have their own independent transaction scope.

This should never be done when the content can be identified properly, as once identification is lost, it is extremely difficult (and context dependent) to restore it again. Contained resources may have profiles and tags In their meta elements, but SHALL NOT have security labels.

An Extension

Provides a textual description of the strength of the active ingredient(s) in the medication

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource and that modifies the understanding of the element that contains it and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer is allowed to define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions.

Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself).

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions.

Business identifier for this medication.

The serial number could be included as an identifier.

A code (or set of codes) that specify this medication, or a textual description if no code is available. Usage note: This could be a standard medication code such as a code from RxNorm, SNOMED CT, IDMP etc. It could also be a national or local formulary code, optionally with translations to other code systems.

Given the lack of an existing superset of Canadian codes and the complexity and variation in code systems used by of prescription ordering and medication & natural product dispensing systems - The Canadian Baseline has chosen to model the variety of coding systems expected in existing systems through an open slice on code.coding. When a super value set is developed, the CA Baseline will update the preferred binding strength that currently points to a placeholder to align to the new value set.

TBD. This is a placeholder for a comprehensive valueset, consisting of all Manufactured Product (MP), Non-proprietary Therapeutic Product (NTP) and Therapeutic Moiety (TM) codes, which would be created and maintained by Canada Health Infoway. Medicinal products for prescribing and dispensing in Canada. The content of this subset only contains commonly used medicinal products that are available for prescribing and dispensing in Canada. This content will expand to include all human medicinal products over time.

Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.

An Extension

A reference to a code defined by a terminology system.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: either text or at least one coding or both have to be present

Allows for alternative encodings within a code system, and translations to other code systems.

Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension.

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

If set to true, indicates that the medication code sent was chosen as a representative code of a drug picked at a more general level. I.e. The user didn't actually choose this specific code. The intended constraints around what drug should be supplied are conveyed by the request's substitution rules.

The identification of the code system that defines the meaning of the symbol in the code.

The URI may be an OID (urn:oid:...) or a UUID (urn:uuid:...). OIDs and UUIDs SHALL be references to the HL7 OID registry. Otherwise, the URI should come from HL7's list of FHIR defined special URIs or it should reference to some definition that establishes the system clearly and unambiguously.

Need to be unambiguous about the source of the definition of the symbol.

The version of the code system which was used when choosing this code. Note that a well-maintained code system does not need the version reported, because the meaning of codes is consistent across versions. However this cannot consistently be assured, and when the meaning is not guaranteed to be consistent, the version SHOULD be exchanged.

Where the terminology does not clearly define what string should be used to identify code system versions, the recommendation is to use the date (expressed in FHIR date format) on which that version was officially published as the version date.

A symbol in syntax defined by the system. The symbol may be a predefined code or an expression in a syntax defined by the coding system (e.g. post-coordination).

Need to refer to a particular code in the system.

A representation of the meaning of the code in the system, following the rules of the system.

Need to be able to carry a human-readable meaning of the code for readers that do not know the system.

Indicates that this coding was chosen by a user directly - e.g. off a pick list of available items (codes or displays).

Amongst a set of alternatives, a directly chosen code is the most appropriate starting point for new translations. There is some ambiguity about what exactly 'directly chosen' implies, and trading partner agreement may be needed to clarify the use of this element and its consequences more completely.

This has been identified as a clinical safety criterium - that this exact system/code pair was chosen explicitly, rather than inferred by the system based on some rules or language processing.

A human language representation of the concept as seen/selected/uttered by the user who entered the data and/or which represents the intended meaning of the user.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: either text or at least one coding or both have to be present

The codes from the terminologies do not always capture the correct meaning with all the nuances of the human using them, or sometimes there is no appropriate code at all. In these cases, the text is used to capture the full meaning of the source.

A code to indicate if the medication is in active use.

This status is intended to identify if the medication in a local system is in active use within a drug database or inventory. For example, a pharmacy system may create a new drug file record for a compounded product "ABC Hospital Special Cream" with an active status. At some point in the future, it may be determined that the drug record was created with an error and the status is changed to "entered in error". This status is not intended to specify if a medication is part of a particular formulary. It is possible that the drug record may be referenced by multiple formularies or catalogues and each of those entries would have a separate status.

A coded concept defining if the medication is in active use.

Describes the details of the manufacturer of the medication product. This is not intended to represent the distributor of a medication product.

CA Baseline Usage Notes: This is a reference to an organization that manufactures the medication. TBD: if there is a need to refernce a 'DPD Company', a new extension should be created and used. A 'DPD Company' name, as used in the Health Canada DPF, indicates the organisation (company) that holds the authorization to place the product on the market in Canada. This may not be the company that has manufactured the product, but it is the company that holds the legal responsibility for the use of the product in Canada and should be the same as the company named on the product label/packaging.

Describes the form of the item. Powder; tablets; capsule.

CA Core Usage Notes: The prescription drug form is required in some provinces in order to meet the prescribing standards set out by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The codes SHOULD be taken from DispensableDrugForm
(preferred to https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/dispensabledrugform)

TBD. This is a placeholder for a comprehensive valueset, which would be created and maintained by Canada Health Infoway.

Specific amount of the drug in the packaged product. For example, when specifying a product that has the same strength (For example, Insulin glargine 100 unit per mL solution for injection), this attribute provides additional clarification of the package amount (For example, 3 mL, 10mL, etc.).

Identifies a particular constituent of interest in the product.

The ingredients need not be a complete list. If an ingredient is not specified, this does not indicate whether an ingredient is present or absent. If an ingredient is specified it does not mean that all ingredients are specified. It is possible to specify both inactive and active ingredients.

Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension.

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element and that modifies the understanding of the element in which it is contained and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions.

Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself).

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions.

The actual ingredient - either a substance (simple ingredient) or another medication of a medication.

The ingredient may reference a substance (for example, amoxicillin) or another medication (for example in the case of a compounded product, Glaxal Base).

Indication of whether this ingredient affects the therapeutic action of the drug.

True indicates that the ingredient affects the therapeutic action of the drug (i.e. active). False indicates that the ingredient does not affect the therapeutic action of the drug (i.e. inactive).

Specifies how many (or how much) of the items there are in this Medication. For example, 250 mg per tablet. This is expressed as a ratio where the numerator is 250mg and the denominator is 1 tablet.

Information that only applies to packages (not products).

Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension.

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element and that modifies the understanding of the element in which it is contained and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions.

Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself).

There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.

Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions.

The assigned lot number of a batch of the specified product.

When this specific batch of product will expire.