Evaluation of RxNorm in Ambulatory Electronic Prescribing

Douglas S. Bell ; Sean Michael O'Neill ; Kerry Reynolds ; Diane Schoeff

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Prescription Drug Benefits;    Health Information Technology;    Electronic Pharmaceutical Prescriptions;    Health Information Technology Interoperability;   

RP-ID  :  TR-941-CMS

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharmacists to dispense. However, the set of computer-interpretable identifiers currently used in electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) does not support the specific needs of the prescribers and pharmacists who conduct e-prescribing transactions.