RxNorm: Past, Present, and Future
NLM
Who Are We?
What is RxNorm?
Let's Try That Again
Prehistory - A Vision
The Distant Past
UMLS Goals
UMLS Components
Building the Metathesaurus
Recent Developments in UMLS
Growth Over Time
UMLS Metathesaurus
The Clinical Drug Problem (1)
The Clinical Drug Problem (2)
Why Clinical Drugs?
NDC Codes - examples
Dawn of RxNorm
The RxNorm Model
Concept By Concept
Ingredient (IN)
Trade Name Ingredient (BN)
Semantic Clinical Drug (SCD)
SCD Examples
Semantic Branded Drug (SBD)
SCD Component (SCDC)
SBD Component (SBDC)
SCD Form (SCDF)
SBD Form (SBDF)
Relationships
Drug Delivery Devices
Relationships to Other Vocabularies
Sources of Clinical Drug Vocabularies
Present Status
File Structure
Potential Uses
Near Future
Expanding Coverage
Dealing With Obsoletes
Updates
Editorial Considerations
Watch For Developments
Usability in Script Standard for e-Rx
Longer Term - The Daily Med
Questions?
Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov
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