Question

What is the Purlose of using thr LOINC,RxNorm, SNOMED and other codes throughout patient chart.

Answer 1

COINC - Logical Observation Identifiers Names and codes It improves patient health and care. It is a universal code nartles. It works by exchanging records of patients and clinical results from multiple sources into a single database. It also improves clinical reasearch and patient case by allowing results to be exchanged I to the appropriate place. It is mostly focused on lab medicine test arder & reporting

Rx Norms It communicates doug related information between electronic system. Rx Norm gives unique identifiers and normalized names to clinical drugs and doug delivery devices. It communicates efficiently and unambiguosly SNOMED CT :- It improves patient care by encoding the meanings which are used in the bealth information. It provides general terminology of EHR and support recording of clinical data. It has a broad coverage of medical concepts.