HL7 Terminology
2.1.0 - Publication
This page is part of the HL7 Terminology (v2.1.0: Release) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 5.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h3>Summary</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td>Defining URL</td><td>http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/v3-rxNorm</td></tr><tr><td>Name</td><td>RxNorm</td></tr><tr><td>Status</td><td>active</td></tr><tr><td>Definition</td><td><div><p>RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, and Gold Standard Drug Database. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary. RxNorm now includes the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Compendial Nomenclature from the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. USP is a cumulative data set of all Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API).</p>
</div></td></tr><tr><td>Publisher</td><td>National Library of Medicine (NLM)</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>2.16.840.1.113883.6.88</td><td>true</td></tr><tr><td>URI</td><td>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm</td><td>true</td></tr></table></div>
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