ePMA Implementation Guidance for FHIR STU3

This guidance is under active development by NHS Digital and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
Please note: This guidance has been superseded by the Implementation guide for digitial medicines, which contains up-to-date information.

Element: id

It is highly recommended that the logical id value is a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) using a standard UUID generator available in most programming languages. The most comprehensive current definition of the logical id is within the FHIR R4 standard.

Optional as this is an internally facing unique identifier. The unique business identifier essential for interoperability is an identifier.


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