The FDA and E-Health Records
The FDA is advancing the government’s effort to create electronic health records for Americans within the next decade by making it easier to access and share drug information more efficiently.
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The FDA is adopting the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) as the standard computerized medical vocabulary system for coding important terms in the Highlights section of prescribing information. For instance, one code would be for the terms “heart attack,” “myocardial infarction,” “infarct,” and “MI.” SNOMED, developed by the College of American Pathologists, is one of the terminologies chosen by the U.S. government as part of the health information technology infrastructure for clinical language. This format will be required beginning June 30, 2006, for recently and newly approved drugs.
