Implementation guidance for the use of the FHIR medicationRequest resource for the use case of electronic hospital patient medicines administration (ePMA) systems interoperability with hospital pharmacy / stock control systems. The medicationRequest acts as a medication order request to the pharmacy for a given patient under case on the ward.
This guidance will be applicable to both STU3 and R4 implementations of th FHIR standard. It will highlight differences between the STU3 and R4 medicationRequest resource and provide guidance on how to future proof an STU3 implementation if an uplift to R4 is expected.
Current approved version published on https://developer.nhs.uk/apis/epma-implementation-1.0.1-alpha/index.html
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