...from the end of this article:
VA is excited to be collaborating with Kaiser, FDA, and others to
provide up- to- date medical information that improves patient safety
and care quality, said Michael J. Lincoln, MD, Chief Terminologist,
Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information.
I think that this has something to do with getting the pharmaceutical
companies and FDA on board with having the drug information use SNOMED
terminology so that electronic medical records, etc., will be more likely to
have ability to look for drug interactions and adverse event information,
I asked Dr Steve Brown for a bit more information and received some of the
following:
FDA is going to use a subset of of SNOMED CT to represent problems in the
structured labeling hilites section (a new part of the label that has
important stuff in an easy to read format). They are putting out
