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: Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT) - XML Representation

Active as of 2022-02-16

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<NamingSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="MEDRT"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: NamingSystem MEDRT</b></p><a name="MEDRT"> </a><a name="hcMEDRT"> </a><a name="MEDRT-en-US"> </a><h3>Summary</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td>Defining URL</td><td>http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MEDRT</td></tr><tr><td>Version</td><td>1.0.0</td></tr><tr><td>Name</td><td>MEDRT</td></tr><tr><td>Title</td><td>Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT)</td></tr><tr><td>Status</td><td>active</td></tr><tr><td>Definition</td><td><div><p>Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT) is the evolutionary successor to the Veterans Health Administration National Drug File – Reference Terminology (VHA NDF-RT). Both are formal ontology representations of medication terminology, pharmacologic classifications, and asserted authoritative relationships between them.</p>
<p>The MED-RT code system includes relationships between MED-RT concepts and concepts in external code systems, as well as relationships between concepts only in the external code systems. The external code systems that MED-RT references include RxNorm, MeSH, and SNOMED CT US Edition.</p>
<p>MED-RT can be downloaded from https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/MED-RT/</p>
<p>For more information, please see https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/pages/vocabulary.jsf?dictionary=MED-RT</p>
</div></td></tr><tr><td>Publisher</td><td>National Cancer Institute (NCI) Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)</td></tr></table><h3>Identifiers</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td><b>Type</b></td><td><b>Value</b></td><td><b>Preferred</b></td></tr><tr><td>OID</td><td>2.16.840.1.113883.6.345</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>URI</td><td>http://va.gov/terminology/medrt</td><td>true</td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <url value="http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MEDRT"/>
  <version value="1.0.0"/>
  <name value="MEDRT"/>
  <title value="Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT)"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <kind value="codesystem"/>
  <date value="2022-02-16T00:00:00-00:00"/>
  <publisher
             value="National Cancer Institute (NCI) Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="US Department of Veterans Affairs; John Kilbourne, MD"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://www.va.gov/"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="medrt@jpsys.com"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="John.Kilbourne@va.gov"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <responsible value="US Department of Veterans Affairs; John Kilbourne, MD"/>
  <description
               value="Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT) is the evolutionary successor to the Veterans Health Administration National Drug File – Reference Terminology (VHA NDF-RT). Both are formal ontology representations of medication terminology, pharmacologic classifications, and asserted authoritative relationships between them.

The MED-RT code system includes relationships between MED-RT concepts and concepts in external code systems, as well as relationships between concepts only in the external code systems. The external code systems that MED-RT references include RxNorm, MeSH, and SNOMED CT US Edition.

MED-RT can be downloaded from https://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/MED-RT/ 

For more information, please see https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/pages/vocabulary.jsf?dictionary=MED-RT"/>
  <uniqueId>
    <type value="oid"/>
    <value value="2.16.840.1.113883.6.345"/>
    <preferred value="true"/>
  </uniqueId>
  <uniqueId>
    <type value="uri"/>
    <value value="http://va.gov/terminology/medrt"/>
    <preferred value="true"/>
  </uniqueId>
</NamingSystem>