Research on Interoperability of Medication Records with Standardized Nomenclature

• Main Authors: Ying-Ting Wang, 王櫻婷
• Other Authors: Der-Ming Liou
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41126141382300521685

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 生物醫學資訊研究所 === 98 === The National Health Insurance (NHI) program was launched in Taiwan. Because the low copayment subsidized by the NHI and the patients with multiple diseases are often necessary to cross-division or cross-hospital to visit, the times of taking medicine more frequently caused the increasable opportunities of duplicated medication. The current healthcare policy for the duplicated medication between medical institutes lack of management, not only waste medical resources, but also endanger patient safety. Recently, Department of Health advocate about patient safety and the medication safety is also a part of patient safety. However, medication information may come from different medical institutes and use different terminologies. To other doctors, they may not understand medication information content and to avoid duplicated medication. This study will implement a prototype system for interoperability of medication records base on IHE XDS and RxNorm, making the medication information corresponds to the standardization and store into entry level in clinical document. Through the consistency of the standards, the doctor could refer to the complete medication records of the patient in past when prescribe in order to reduce duplicated medication.