Federal Medication Terminologies
The Federal Medication (FedMed) interagency collaboration is organizing an agreed set
of standard, comprehensive, freely and easily accessible Federal
Medication Terminologies (FMT) to improve the exchange and public
availability of medication information. FedMed is a joint effort of these
Federal partner agencies:
The FedMed resources and related standards encompass medication and
ingredient names, codes, routes of administration, dosage forms, units of
presentation, mechanisms of action, physiologic effects, and structure.
Participating agencies currently provide the following FMT components and
related products:
The initial FMT terminology set has been endorsed by U.S. Federal standards efforts including the
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS),
Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI),
the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP),
and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
within the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS). An overview of the FMT goals, directions, and components is available
in a jointly developed
PowerPoint presentation.
The FedMed partners are working with
ONC to develop an Interagency Coordination Group that can support
coordination, development, and use of the FMT standards.
Please send questions and support requests to:
FedMedHelp@hhs.gov
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