General Message Requirements (S.202, S.207, S.209)
Overview
This section holds the application certification requirements located in the General Message RequirementsGeneral Message Requirements section in the guide.
S.202
S.202: Receivers shall not reject any incoming messages due to misalignment of local directory contents, the lack of entries for the sender, or the use of address standardization within the customer’s local directories.
S.207
S.207: If an element does not have a value to be sent, the application shall not send any data. If no data is sent, the receiving application shall not display a value equal to zero, nor infer any value for that field.
Note: Placeholder values such as zero or N/A should not be sent.
S.209
S.209: The customer shall implement and maintain a Surescripts approved drug compendia that is updated at least monthly.
Notes:
Approved drug compendia for E-Prescribing include the following:
- Elsevier Gold Standard
- First Databank (FDB)
- Merative (formerly IBM Truven Health Analytics)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) RxNorm
- Oracle Health Multum Drug Database
- SCHOLZ DataBank
- Wolters Kluwer Medi-Span
- Or others as approved by Surescripts