Question

Paper describing the

-History/background of RxNorm?

-Definition of RxNorm and how it is used in health information?

-Find an article that relates to RxNorm

-Cite the sources

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Answer 1

History/background of RxNorm?

In 2001,NLM started an experiment in coding drugs in unified medical language system(UMLS).There were many motives in doing this.Primary is missed synonym in naming the clinical drugs which was becoming problamatic.clinical drugs was becoming an issue in patient safety; HL7 vocabulary technical committee had general agreement on what a clinical drug model should be.It was based on doctors perspective as to what will be his requirement and what he will sent to pharmacy.The dose prescibed will be based on the administered patient.This project was known as the RxNorm project

RxNorm

Rxnorm is basically a catalog of standard names given to clinical drugs and its delivery systems with clear communication between electronic devices and need not depend on the software and hardware compatilbility.

Purpose of RxNorm

Hospitals rely on computer system to record and process drug related information.There will be many set of drugs and hence it makes difficult for one computer to the communicate this with the other.To address this RxNorm provides unique names and identifiers for medicines and drugs.The goal is to communicate the drug related informations efficiently.The name of each drug is based on its combination and its strength so 500mg ibuprufen name is different from 100mg ibuprufen.It is produced by National Library of Medicine.RxNorm offers more than 20 API end points providing unique identifiers for generic name,brand names,doage forms,precise ingredients and national drug code properties.

Article Sources

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/overview.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23463549_Using_the_RxNorm_Web_Services_API_for_Quality_Assurance_Purposes