ManufacturedItemDefinition FHIR Resource Proposal
Contents
- 1 MedicinalProductDefinition
- 1.1 Owning work group name
- 1.2 Committee Approval Date:
- 1.3 Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
- 1.4 FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
- 1.5 Scope of coverage
- 1.6 RIM scope
- 1.7 Resource appropriateness
- 1.8 Expected implementations
- 1.9 Content sources
- 1.10 Example Scenarios
- 1.11 Resource Relationships
- 1.12 Timelines
- 1.13 gForge Users
- 1.14 When Resource Proposal Is Complete
- 1.15 FMG Notes
MedicinalProductDefinition
Draft resource in build:
Owning work group name
Committee Approval Date:
6th May 2019 (earlier approval as "RegulatedManufacturedItem" 13th September 2017)
Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
- Pharmacy
- Orders and Observations
FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
1367
Scope of coverage
ManufacturedItemDefinition is to be used when you need to describe an actual physical medication item such as a tablet or capsule. These are typically for regulatory or manufacturing use cases.
This is the only resource that treats the "tablet" (or whatever it may be) as a physical object. It is still definitional however, it describes all instances of this tablet.
The definition needs to be a resource, rather than just a shared concept such as a data type, because the same physical item can appear in many different package types.
This excludes devices and other items found in medication packaging such as scissors, bottle stoppers, applicators and so on.
This detail would very rarely, be needed when prescribing – for which the correct resource is Medication. If you need to know what size or shape the tablet is, this resource has that level of detail.
The manufactured item describes the physical characteristics of the item, as opposed to its pharmaceutical aspects (which may only apply after mixing with other items), or its packaging, or legal aspects (which apply only to the whole group of packing and manufactured items).
Gforge tracker item 23924 specifically requests this use case. ("How to express multiple package configurations of the same manufactured item?")
https://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=23924&start=0
Note that there can be several types of manufactured item in one package (e.g. a combination pill product, or a cream and a tablet).
Also of course multiple instances of the item may be in the packaging and this is indicated by the quantity within the package (e.g. a package of 12 tablets), when referencing a single copy of the manufactured item.
In scope:
Drug form and unit of presentation (e.g. solid, tablet, film-coated tablet).
Manufacturer and ingredients.
Physical characteristics, e.g. size, shape, color, image, imprints (logo)
Some other closely related information is in scope of other proposed resources, but not in scope of this resource:
Detailed packaging information (PackagedProductDefinition) - this resource "contains" ManufacturedItemDefinitions
Pharmaceutical aspects of the product (AdminstrableProductDefinition) - can be created from one or more ManufacturedItemDefinitions (possibly mixed together)
Regulatory authorizations (RegulatedAuthorization) - legal aspects of the product as a whole (of which the manufactured item is a key component).
Details of ingredients (Ingredient) and their substances (SubstanceDefinition).
Not in scope:
For day to day prescribing, the resource to use is Medication. This covers basic drug information – code, form, strength, batch number.
Devices - this does not cover (non-medicated) devices. See discussion below.
Pricing and contextual or local formulary information - for that see MedicationKnowledge.
Scope discussion:
“Devices” are not typically covered by this resource, unless they have a pharmaceutical aspect, such as an impregnated bandage.
Note that the lines between devices, biologicals and medicinal products are unclear in the real world, and this resource does not attempt to solve that issue by being prescriptive.
RIM scope
Similar in scope to the product parts of CPM. Entity: Material (EntityClass="MAT") determinerCode=KIND
Resource appropriateness
There is an outstanding requirement to support the standardised exchange of detailed "Product" data, for regulatory and other use cases.
This resource does not intend to clash with the existing Medication resource, but complements it with an extra level of detail. It is defnitional rather than about an instance of a medication (Also note however that when prescribing there is a duality of instance vs definition even in the Medication resource.)
It is seen as a sibling resource, in a definitional strata, rather than a parent or a "superclass" to be profiled.
(The superclass option has widely discussed and rejected, since this would mean the Medication resource - much more commonly used - would become more complicated, being a very small profile of a very large model. We don't want to introduce such confusing complexity in that space - which is largely separate.)
This resource has been designed in close consultation with Pharmacy WG, and in conjunction with the MedicationKnowledge resource
MedicinalProductDefinition is intended to add an extra level of product specification detail, such as is typically used by regulators, and only indirectly used during normal medication related work flows (e.g. for look-ups of unfamiliar products).
Drug manufacturers currently submit this data electronically to regulators, when products are registered or altered, or marketing situations change.
Expected implementations
EMA and European drug manufacturers, who have a requirement to submit to EMA (and already do so in a proprietary format). They are required to move to IDMP, and this is a good opportunity to use a standards-based FHIR solution.
FDA for drug submission (currently using SPL, which is not likely to change in the near term, but have expressed an interest in FHIR).
Norwegian planned implementation TODO
Content sources
A large amount of actual data of this kind exists in the EMA EU XEVMPD data base (and XEVPRM XML messages). Example FHIR data for several full product data sheets exists based on draft resources.
Also, information gained from early stage implementation of these resources at EMA (2018, 2019), and from many many received to EMA about the draft API specification from the European medicines regulatory network (https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/about-us/how-we-work/european-medicines-regulatory-network).
Also from FDA requirements (for PQ/CMC) and other workgroup review (BR&R, Pharmacy) and their comments. Current active work on this project, with this resource.
This content is supported by the HL7 V3 SPL (Structured Product Labeling) standard.
Example Scenarios
Pharma companies submit details of new products to regulators. Updates are made when necessary e.g. clinical particulars change (a new contra-indication), a new marketing authorization exists etc.
Pharmacies and prescribers can view and download this information for reference and integration with their systems.
Specific use cases include:
Submission of products from drug companies and NCAs (National Competent Authorities - the national regulators) to regional regulators. This is already implemented in Europe (by EMA and EU-wide stakeholders) with an earlier non-HL7 format (XEVPRM/XEVMPD). That scenarion is currently being re-implemented, using this resource, as part of the EU wide SPOR project.
Drug Manufacturing Quality information (aka PQ/CMC, Pharmaceutical Quality), as used by the FDA in the US. Specific plans to use this resource for that project.
Resource Relationships
For the relationship to other resources, see the diagram below.
High level relationships of the main prescribing resources and the regulatory strata below:
Also refer to the logical model which was used to clarify the resource relationships, at the request of FMG, in the preparation of this proposal (linked to the approved MedicationKnowledge proposal page): MedicationKnowledge_FHIR_Resource_Proposal
Some notable resource references: Reference to Organization, for the manufacturer, regulator and other establishments. Reference to DocumentReference, for the regulatory submission documentation. Reference to directly supporting resources such as RegulatedPackagedProduct. Incoming reference from resource RegulatedAuthorization. Indirect reference to DeviceDefinition, via the other proposed resources (DeviceDefinition was created with O&O with input from this IDMP project and includes our all of our device requirements). Indirect reference to proposed SubstanceSpecification resource to describe ingredients in detail.
MedicinalProductDefinition and Medication
This resource is intended to complement the Medication resource, which is focused on what is commonly needed for medical/clinical use cases. MedicinalProductDefinition adds information needed for regulatory use cases, of which there is little overlap to day to day prescribing.
Most aspects of MedicinalProductDefinition are not present in Medication at all, and are not current candidates for inclusion in the prescribe/dispense/administer workflow.
MedicinalProductDefinition and MedicationKnowledge
MedicationKnowledge resource is aimed at drug knowledge bases. There is partial overlap in scope between that resource and some aspects of regulatory use cases. To fulfil that, the common associated resources of MedicinalProductDefinition will be used (e.g. Ingredient, ClinicalUseIssue). MedicationKnowledge includes some local specifics such as pricing. The boundaries between all these resource have been carefully thought out and have had much discussion in workgroups (BR&R, Pharmacy, CDS) and with FMG representatives.
MedicationKnowledge
This resource differs from MedicationKnowledge in that MedicinalProductDefinition is a context-less, complete definition of the drug (typically as defined by the manufacturer and validated by a regulatory body), including all the intrinsic properties.
MedicationKnowledge is a description of the product in a context, such as a local formulary, and can include costing and local usage information.
There is some overlap in scope between MedicationKnowledge and the entirety of definitional information about the “Product” (which is more than is covered in MedicinalProductDefinition itself). Where the same data element exists in both contexts this is factored into a shared resource (e.g. ClinicalUseIssue, Ingredient, which are referenced from both).
The MedicinalProductDefinition resource differs from other proposed resources:
AdministrableProductDefinition
this covers the pharmaceutical as it is mixed, from the “manufactured” components in the pack, and as ready administered to the patient. This is a different concept to the overall product and to MedicinalProductDefinition specifically (though the “product” does incorporate both aspects, and this is managed by the APD being referenced from the MedicinalProductDefinition. In effect this is a new substance, that doesn’t exist in the product otherwise. In some cases e.g. a tablet, the administrable form is the same as the manufactured form.
PackagedProductDefinition
this covers one of the possible packaging versions of the product. There can be different packages (e.g. 10 tabs, 20 tabs) in the same “product”, but still treated as one product for licensing etc. This is managed by the multiple PPDs being referenced from the overarching MedicinalProductDefinition. The package can contain multiple Manufactured Items (ManufacturedItemDefinition) (the physical drug and solvents etc) which are then mixed to make the APD.
So:
MPD – as licenced / \ / \____PPD1 or PPD2 – as supplied / / \ APD <-- MID1+MID2 (mixed) \ as administered to the patient
MPD Medicinal Product (definition)
MID Manufactured Item (definition)
PPD PackagedProduct (definition)
APD Administrable Product (definition)
Timelines
Draft content is modelled in the FHIR build (http://build.fhir.org/MedicinalProductDefinition.html), with outline supporting documentation. Completion planned Q4 2019.
gForge Users
riksmithies
When Resource Proposal Is Complete
When you have completed your proposal, please send an email to FMGcontact@HL7.org