Minutes - Medication WG 2022-02-15

Attendees

• An Crepel, digile
• Annemieke Vergauwe
• Bart Decuypere
• Jan Lenie
• Jean-Michel Polfliet
• Jens Penny
• José Costa Teixeira
• Karlien Erauw
• Kris Deceunynck
• Pablo Christiaens
• Thomas Van Langendonck
• Tom Henkens

Excused/Not present

• Anne Nerenhausen
• Bruno Casneuf
• Dieter Sauvillers
• Elhassan Baazizi
• Hanne Vuegen
• Jean-Louis Maggetto
• Jeroen De Wilde
• Katrien Thorré
• Lars Vanreppelen
• Marc Buckens
• Nick Hermans
• Nils Devos
• Richard Francken
• Thomas Van Langendonck
• Tom De Backer
• Walter Bollaert
• Will van Norel

Agenda

• discussion on drug databaes
• review of prepared use cases

Minutes

• An from Digile has worked on the SAM database and has plenty of drug data expertise

• BCFI, the green booklet used by pharmacists & doctors

• BCFI was structured in a Repertorium drug tables

• SAM is a consortium: APB, RIZIV, FOD VG, FAGG to put all drugs in one database

• VMP, VMP-groups are concepts were implemented through guidance from BCFI

• public SAM viewer was developed by Digile, visualisation in an intuitive manner that has the full SAMv2 content (2 updates a day - not realtime), is public

• feedback option is available as there are still some data quality issues with SAM

• José did not have time to prepare the use cases due to personal circumstances
• upcoming problem of catalog of medicines: there are CNK, CTI, ATC and plenty of other codes, also virtual therapautic group as called in Belgium (FAGG provides the codes) ; VMPP is abandoned in Belgium

• the codes are at different level and different granularities
• which codes will we use in the medication scheme ?
• whatever we want, we depend with what FAGG will provide as this is legal
• see scheme here
• we have to look at SAM : https://samviewer.digile.be/nl/sam/ampps/250266-13

• Looking at while discussing:

• https://build.fhir.org/resourcelist.html
• https://www.hl7.org/fhir/medication.html
• https://www.hl7.org/fhir/medicationknowledge.html
• what France is doing: https://simplifier.net/guide/fr-Medication/Ressources2
• vmpgroup -> vmp -> amp -> ampp -> cnk
• Unicom project: see https://unicom-project.eu/ and interesting summary here

• Jens will start working ona document listing different concepts that will be used in the medication scheme

Action items for next meeting

• José to work on use cases and add medication view line in view and how it all works at operational level
• Jens to start writing up document

Next meeting March 1 at 11AM