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These IDMP standards provide a conceptual model for the unique identification of a medicinal product globally, and standard terminology concepts to support this (for example, to describe substances and dose forms). The domain of use for the IDMP standards is primarily the regulatory domain, but since regulatory information is the source and underpinning for the description of medication and medicinal product concepts in a clinical/patient care medicinal product terminology, both internationally and nationally, it is important that the SNOMED CT medicinal product model and supporting concepts are in harmony with those standards.  Compatibility with the IDMP model for identification of medicinal products with will facilitate information flow between the two domains of use, for example to support pharmacovigilance.  However, there is no sense that this harmony entails “full and exact compliance”; there would be little value in exact duplication.  The SNOMED CT medicinal product hierarchy therefore provides classes of concepts that are additional to those present in the IDMP model, to support the specific SNOMED CT and patient care/health data analysis use cases.  

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