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RxNorm is US-specific terminology in
medicine
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that contains all medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and re ...
s available on the US market. It can also be used in personal health record
A personal health record (PHR) is a health record where health data and other information related to the care of a patient is maintained by the patient. This stands in contrast to the more widely used electronic medical record, which is operated by ...
s applications. RxNorm is part of Unified Medical Language System
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences (created 1986). It provides a mapping structure among these vocabularies and thus allows one to translate among the various termin ...
(UMLS) terminology and is maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine
The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.
Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the NLM is an institute within the National Institutes of Health. Its ...
(NLM).
Concept types
RxNorm distinguishes different types 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
NLM provides sixAPI
An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software Interface (computing), interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standa ...
s related to RxNorm. There is also a web application called RxMix that allows users to access the RxNorm APIs without writing their own programs.
See also
*Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical ...
References
External links
* * National Institutes of Health Pharmacological classification systems {{pharma-stub