Question

What was the original "intended use" for the RxNorm system? What other uses were discovered? Why is RxNorm important in the world of electronic health records, technology, and communication on patient care?

Answer 1

ANS)

• The RxNorm System can be defind as the standardized terminology to illustrate or represent drugs.
• Formed by the US National Library of Medicine in the year 2002 and illustrates drugs by normalized names for the clinical medications,that involve constituents strength and dosage type.

The RxNorm was created to,

1. Assist electronic prescribing.
2. Mapping between various medication dictionary.
3. Form drug-related clinical decision aiding principles.

• The RxNorm was used for immediate capture of drug history in the live Electronic Health Record procedure.
• RxNorm is a tool combined auto-complete search functionality and the dosage ID support.
• The implementation utilized a 4 component structure involving rapidity and coverage.
• The adaptations directed increased speed I/O necessities and pliability for data entry.
• Coming investigations on User Profiling and Medication Categorization

THANKS!!!!