#18 The IDMP standards explained – Malin Fladvad & Olle Lagerlund

The Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) standards promise
to harmonise how pharmaceutical products and substances are
described around the world. But how will that benefit patients
and who will make sure the standards are properly implemented?
Uppsala Monitoring Centre’s Malin Fladvad and Olle Lagerlund
discuss the advantages and challenges of this global
standardisation effort.


Tune in to find out:


What the IDMP standards cover

How Uppsala Monitoring Centre will help create and maintain
them

What is expected of other key stakeholders



Want to know more?


UNICOM’s ‘IDMP in a capsule’ explains how the IDMP standards work
throughout the life cycle of a medicinal product and is available
as a handbook and video tutorial.

Healthcare consultant Christian Hay discusses how IDMP will
improve medication safety worldwide in Uppsala Reports.

Development and implementation of the standards are led by the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), who
described the key benefits of the project in this article from
2016.

The IDMP standards for dose form and characteristics will be
provided by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines
& HealthCare (EDQM), and those for units by the Unified Code
for Units of Measure (UCUM).

You can learn more about Uppsala Monitoring Centre’s role in the
IDMP project and how the standards will affect the WHODrug Global
drug dictionary on our website.






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