Health informatics — Requirements for international machine-readable coding of medicinal product package identifiers

This specification provides guidelines on identification and labelling of medicinal products from the point of manufacture of packaged medicinal product to the point of dispensing the product. The specification outlines best practice for automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) barcoding solutions for applications. Users can, however, consider the coding interoperability requirements for other AIDC technologies (for example, radio frequency identification (RFID)).

Main sections:

· Scope

· Normative references

· Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms

· Procedural background

· Usage requirements

· Economic aspects

· Annex A: Relationship between PhPID and MPID

· Annex B: Packaging hierarchy, relationship between MPID, PCID and GTIN

· Annex C: Identification of trade items and logistic units

· Annex D: Examples for package identifier

· Annex E: Personalised medicine