1 Scope
This European Prestandard specifies general messages for electronic informationexchange
between computer systems used by healthcare parties prescribing, dispensingor administering medicinal products/medicinal appliancesa). The contentand structure of the messages specified in this European prestandard
have beendeveloped with the aim of optimising the safety of prescribing and dispensing and tofacilitate compliance monitoring and secure audit trails.
Whenever medicinal products are mentioned within this European prestandard, medicinalappliances may be substituted
if they serve similar purposes and can be representedin similar ways in a message
as medicinal products.
This European prestandard is applicable to messages for electronic informationexchange
of prescription sets issued (i.e. prescribed) by healthcare persons (andpossibly other persons who on this occasion act as healthcare persons) authorised bynational regulations.
This European prestandard is applicable to messages for electronic informationexchange
of prescription sets sent by a prescriber to a dispensing healthcare party(dispensing agent) and to healthcare persons/organisations or official authoritiesas permitted by national regulation. This European
prestandard is also applicable tomessages for electronic information exchange of prescription sets sent by theprescriber to a relaying agent and from a relaying agent to a dispensing
agent.
NOTE A relaying agent is a special Electronic Message Handling Service from wh...