Project description
A step towards standardising prescriptions
The cross-border mobility of European patients and the univocal identification of medicinal projects are directly related. Currently, 22 Member States are part of the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure and are expected to exchange e-prescriptions and patient summaries by the end of 2021. However, this requires EU-wide adoption of the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) suite of standards. The EU-funded UNICOM project will focus on the conversion of key regulatory and clinical processes to use IDMP. By bringing together all relevant actors, the project will help to address all the associated challenges. Work will centre on the implementation of EU and national SPOR (substances, products, organisations, referentials) databases, including establishing an EU Substance Reference System (EU-SRS).
Objective
This innovation action will give a powerful impulse to implementation of ISO IDMP (ID of Medicinal Products) standards in EU Member States drug databases, supporting safe cross-border ePrescription/eDispensation and effective pharmacovigilance. Once EU-interoperable data on medicines taken by patients become available, further benefits will accrue through better health data for improved clinical decision support, patient empowerment, public health and clinical research. New opportunities will arise for pharma industry, software developers, SMEs providing smart apps and others, thereby fostering their innovation capacity and competitiveness.
The many challenges still to be faced on this road will be tackled by a powerful consortium assembling all relevant actors, with critical mass for impact throughout the EU. After 10 years of development, the IDMP suite of standards is ready for implementation. Though some isolated implementation work has started, the time is now ripe for a more concerted effort towards large-scale implementation, contributing to this global interoperability endeavour and delivering benefits to EU citizens. Project ambition centres on conversion of key regulatory and clinical processes to use IDMP. These information value chains must be converted over their full length from data input to data repositories to data usage. Project work spans all three areas, focussing on the most challenging, the implementation of EU and national SPOR (substances, products, organisations, referentials) data bases, including establishing an EU Substance Reference System (EU-SRS). Such information is fundamental to cross-border ePrescription where safe dispensation may require reliable identification of substances in available products.
19 countries are represented, including 26 national Drug and eHealth Agencies. Stakeholders are involved through their associations. Duration is 4 years, budget € 21 m, with requested funding € 19 m.
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- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugs
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(opens in new window) H2020-SC1-DTH-2018-2020
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Participants (40)
1050 189 Lisboa
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28022 Madrid
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10 000 Zagreb
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3531AH Utrecht
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80131 Napoli
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02105 Boston Ma
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53175 Bonn
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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00138 Roma
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D02 XW14 Dublin
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1200 Wien
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1150 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1210 Sint-Joost-Ten-Node
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2 Dublin
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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10000 Zagreb
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61118 Bad Vilbel
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105 51 ATHINA
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28108 Alcobendas - (Madrid)
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1749 004 Lisboa
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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W2 6BD London
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00250 Helsinki
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70100 KUOPIO
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20154 MILANO
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75103 Uppsala
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1220 Wien
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20124 Milano
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41071 SEVILLA
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50411 Tartu
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61-755 Poznan
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2491AC Den Haag
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9860 OOSTERZELE
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0213 Oslo
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92130 Issy Les Moulineaux
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2514 JL Den Haag
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E14 4PU London
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54403 Wausau
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11317 Tallinn
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