data standards & interoperability

Data Standards & Interoperability

HCPCS standardized codes that represent medical procedures, supplies, products, and services in order to facilitate the processing of health insurance claims by Medicare and other insurers.

HL7 International comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information.  You can access healthcare data exchange standards here: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/ 

LOINC common terminology for laboratory and clinical observations

NDC the FDA’s universal product identifier for human drugs

NANDA-I  standardized nursing diagnostic terminology

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 

SNOMED CT standardized, multilingual vocabulary of clinical terminology that facilitates the electronic exchange of clinical information. Search SNOMED CT using this link. https://snomedbrowser.com/

SCRIPT defines documents for electronic transmission of medical prescriptions (e-prescribing)  between pharmacies, prescribers, facilities, intermediaries, and payors in the United States.