International standard
Health informatics — Identification of medicinal products — Implementation for ISO 11616 data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of regulated pharmaceutical product information
Published Apr 30, 2026
This document provides requirements and recommendations related to the concepts required to associate pharmaceutical products or groups of pharmaceutical products with an appropriate set of PhPID(s) in accordance with ISO 11616 . Pharmaceutical product identifiers and the related elements are intended to represent pharmaceutical products as defined within a medicinal product by a medicines regulatory authority. While the ISO standards on IDMP can be applied to off-label usage of medicinal products, such applications are currently outside of the scope of this document. Reference to ISO 11238 , ISO 11239 , ISO 11240 , ISO 11615 , HL7 V3 messaging standards (HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) [8] , HL7 Common Product Model (CPM) [9] and HL7 V3 Structured Product Labelling (SPL) [10] , and HL7 FHIR [11] can be applied for pharmaceutical product information in the context of this document.
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Withdrawn · Oct 19, 2017