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Current Release Information

Date
July 2017InfoRMSSR-39
January 2022
AccessTerminology Gateway
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Code System Version

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Current Release
LPR2
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About

the PrescribeIT

the PrescribeIT® Subsets

Canada Health Infoway is working with Health Canada, the provinces and territories, and industry stakeholders to create, operate and maintain a financially self-sustaining, multi-jurisdiction e-prescribing service, known as

PrescribeIT™

PrescribeIT®. This will be a single service that can be scaled for use across the country enabling prescribers to electronically transmit a prescription to a patient’s pharmacy of choice.

The pan-Canadian

PrescribeIT

PrescribeIT™ subsets provide a standardized way for systems to capture, store, retrieve and transmit related health information. 

Click here to review more general information about subset releases. 

Version numbers for EMR vendor specification, PMS vendor specifications and FHIR specifications follow the versioning convention of using   X.Y.Z (e.g. 2.0.1) where X is incremented when there is a major release, Y is incremented when there is a minor release and Z is incremented when there is a patch.

A major release is defined as any change that is not backwards compatible, a minor release is defined as a change to add new functionality that results in a change to the messaging interface and a patch is defined as a change that does not result in a change to the messaging interface.

The PrescribeIT® subset PrescriptionMedicinalProduct is based on the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD).  Every time a new IG pack is generated, this subset will get updated with the most recent values.  There is no fixed cadence for IG pack generation but normally new IG packs are generated for each new release of PrescribeIT.

Known Issues with the July 2017 release of PrescribeIT subsets:

  • In cases where the reference terminology was managed by Infoway, the risk of pre-adopting codes that have not been previously published was low and the subsets were published as an Initial release.
  • IndicationForUse subset should be considered a starter set because there was insufficient consensus on the content.
  • PrescriptionMedicinalProduct is missing content based on the scope.