HL7 Europe Medication Prescription and Dispense, published by HL7 Europe. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/hl7-eu/mpd/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Background

The European context

The history of European collaboration in the health space is long, and prior to the start of the epSOS project (2008-2014), that was intended to work on the development, the pilot and the evaluation of the first cross-border eHealth service.

This long journey resulted in the first operational cross-border services for Patient Summary and ePrescription based on the HL7 CDA R2.0 standard in 2019 ( see here for the current MyHealth@EU CDA-based specifications), initially activated in a few countries and progressively extended on a voluntary basis.

These services was initially identified as EHDSI (under CEF), recently renamed MyHealth@EU.

A set of new "priorities" services, beyond Patient Summary and ePrescription, have been identified by the European commission to be progressively implemented for the cross-border services. Namely:

• Laboratory Report
• Images and Imaging Report
• (Hospital) Discharge Report

All the new services will be based on HL7 FHIR.