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Table 33.1 Consolidated health informatics terminology standards 7
Domain Terminology standard
Anatomy National Cancer Institute (NCI) Metathesaurus, SNOMED CT
Diagnosis/Problem Lists
Laboratory Results Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms
(SNOMED CT)
Non-Laboratory Interventions/
Procedures
Nursing
Demographics
Immunizations
Clinical Encounters Health Level Seven (HL7)
Text Based Reports
Units
Laboratory Result Names Logical Observations Indicators Names and Codes (LOINC)
Laboratory Test Order Names
Genes Human Gene Nomenclature (HUGN)
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
Chemicals Substance Registry System (SRS)
Medications: Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)
Active Ingredients Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII)
Clinical Drugs National Library of Medicine (NLM) RxNORM
Drug Classifications National Drug File Reference Terminology (NDF-RT)
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)
Drug Product National Drug Code (NDC) Product Name/Code
Manufactured Dosage Form Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
Package Data Standards Manual
Special Populations Health Level Seven Version 2.x
Logical Observations Indicators Names and Codes (LOINC)
Structured Product Label Clinical Structured Product Label (SPL)
HIPAA Approved Code Sets Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
transactions and code sets
Supplies
History & Physical
Population Health
Disability No current standards
Physiology
Proteins
Multimedia
and granularity of concepts to describe entities and events within a domain (to the
extent and detail needed) and reusability. Different terminologies implementations
include:
Dictionaries, catalogs:
structured collection of terms that may be related to
objects, with attributes (e.g., drug formulary with generic and trade names, dose,
and route information)