NLM made more accurate and complete connections between National Drug Codes and standard nonproprietary names of medications recommended for use in EHRs. NLM also included for the first time the complete set of NDCs from Thomson Reuters’ Red Book, a drug database.
The connections between NDC product codes and RxNorm standard names and identifiers in the EHR may allow providers to use an NDC on a medicine bottle to speed standard data entry or trigger an alert written in the RxNorm standard that could prevent a medication error, according to the release.
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