Generated Narrative: NamingSystem MEDRT Summary Defining URL http://terminology.hl7.org/NamingSystem/MEDRT Version 1.0.0 Name MEDRT Title Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT) Status active Definition 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 Publisher National Cancer Institute (NCI) Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) Identifiers Type Value Preferred OID 2.16.840.1.113883.6.345 true URI http://va.gov/terminology/medrt true
Medication Reference Terminology (MED-RT)
National Cancer Institute (NCI) Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS)
US Department of Veterans Affairs; John Kilbourne, MD
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