IE Medication Events Implementation Guide
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Official URL: https://hl7-ie.github.io/medication-events/fhir/ImplementationGuide/nostalgic-ie.fhir.medication-events Version: 0.1.0
Draft as of 2026-10-09 Computable Name: IEMpd

Proof of concept. Not for clinical use. This IG is written by Nithin Mohan. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, HIQA, the HSE, HL7 Ireland, HL7 Europe or the Department of Health. It follows a HIQA draft national standard that is out for public consultation (September 2026) and will change.

What this IG is

IE Medication Events (IE MPD) profiles the exchange of medication events in Ireland on FHIR R4:

Event Profile Basis
Prescribing (ePrescription) MedicationRequest (ePrescription), grouped with their eDispensations and provenance in an Electronic Prescription Group (ePG) HIQA EP Sections 1–5; HL7 Europe MPD 1.0.0
Dispensing (eDispensation) MedicationDispense (eDispensation) HIQA EP Section 6; HL7 Europe MPD 1.0.0
Administration MedicationAdministration IE MPD design (HIQA has no administration dataset); base FHIR R4
Medication statement MedicationStatement HIQA Patient Summary 6.3 (Medication summary); HL7 Europe Base 2.0.0

The medicine itself is a Medication (ePrescription), coded with the NMPC (SNOMED CT Irish Edition). The people and organisations are Patient (ePrescription), Practitioner, PractitionerRole, Organization and Location.

Where to start

  • HIQA Alignment: how the HIQA ePrescription and eDispensation standard maps to this IG.
  • HIQA Traceability: every HIQA data element, and where it is represented.
  • Electronic Prescription Group: an ePG bundles a prescription's items with their eDispensations and provenance, plus a header with the prescription-level HIQA data; compared with NHS England EPS.
  • Dosage: how to express dosage instructions, with worked examples (HIQA EP Section 5).
  • Administration and Statements: the two event types beyond HIQA EP.
  • Data Minimisation: what an ePrescription must not carry.
  • Terminology: NMPC and SNOMED CT Irish Edition codes, and how they were checked.
  • Open Issues: what the draft does not settle.
  • Artifacts: every profile, extension, ValueSet and example.

Relationship to IE Core

This IG started as a copy of the ePrescription and eDispensation profiles in IE Core (0.2.0, "Nostalgic IE"). It owns its own canonical (https://hl7-ie.github.io/medication-events/fhir) and does not depend on the IE Core package. Identifier system URIs (IHI, PPSN, IMC, PSI, …) stay in IE Core's namespace, so the same identifier carries the same system in both IGs. See ADR-001 in the source repository.

Package

Item Value
Package id nostalgic-ie.fhir.medication-events
Release name Nostalgic IE (draft)
Version 4.0.1
FHIR version 4.0.1
Canonical https://hl7-ie.github.io/medication-events/fhir

All people, organisations and identifiers in the examples are fictional.