RxNorm
RxNorm is a name of a US-specific terminology in medicine that contains all medications available on US market.[1] It can also be used in personal health records applications. It is part of UMLS terminology and is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.[2]
Concept types
RxNorm distinguishes different type of drug concepts. It has concepts for drug ingredients, clinical drugs or dose forms.
Coverage
RxNorm only includes drugs that are approved in USA.
Use
As of May 2017, NLM provides six APIs related to RxNorm.[3] There is also a web application called RxMix that allows users to access to the RxNorm APIs without writing their own programs.[4]
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RxNorm web viewer (RxNav)
See also
- Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
- Medical Reference Terminology
References
- ↑ Bennett, Casey C. (2012). "Utilizing RxNorm to support practical computing applications: Capturing medication history in live electronic health records". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 45 (4): 634–641. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2012.02.011. PMID 22426081 – via ScienceDirect.
- ↑ "RxNorm Overview". U.S. National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health. 25 April 2017.
- ↑ "APIs". RxNav. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ "RxMix Tutorial". RxNav. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
External links
- Official website
- RxNav – RxNorm browser, APIs, and web applications.
- RxNorm at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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