ePMA Implementation Guidance for FHIR STU3

This guidance is under active development by NHS Digital and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
Please note: This guidance has been superseded by the Implementation guide for digitial medicines, which contains up-to-date information.

Element: requester

Recommendations:
  • should be a required business element for most MVP implementations
  • should be the prescriber recorded on the ePMA system for the medication request
  • should implement as a reference a FHIR Practitioner resource.

Where an implementation requires the identification of a person plus an organisation then the solution differs depending on the version of FHIR. Within an STU3 implementation, reference an Organization resource within the requester.onBehalfOf element.

Within an R4 implementation replace the Practitioner resource with a PractitionerRole resource.

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