Guided Notes
Clinical Terminologies & Code Systems
SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-10-CM, CPT, NDC, CVX and UCUM — what each one codes, where it lives in the EHR, and why mapping matters.
Why standard codes?
Slide 1 / 5Computers can't reliably compare free text: 'heart attack', 'MI' and 'myocardial infarction' are the same thing. Standard code systems give each concept a unique code so that: • decision support can recognize conditions and drugs, • quality measures and research can count reliably, • data can be exchanged between different EHRs, • billing uses the required code sets.