United States Patient Care Summary (US-PCS) Implementation Guide
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Terminology Owner/Contact Links
SNOMED CT® SNOMED International http://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/get-snomed-ct
SNOMED CT® IPS Terminology SNOMED International https://www.snomed.org/international-patient-summary-terminology
Logical Observation Identifiers Names & Codes (LOINC®) Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the LOINC Committee https://loinc.org/license/
Unified Codes for Units of Measures (UCUM) Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the UCUM Organization http://unitsofmeasure.org/trac/wiki/TermsOfUse
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) classification system World Health Organization (WHO) https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology https://www.whocc.no/use_of_atc_ddd/
ISO 3166 Country Code International Organization for Standardization (ISO) https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html
National Drug Code (NDC) [US] Food and Drug Administration https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/national-drug-code-directory
RxNorm [US] Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) https://uts.nlm.nih.gov/license.html https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/termsofservice.html

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