HSLIC's Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series Presents: Stuart Nelson, MD

You are invited to join us on Thursday, October 14th from 10 to 11 AM, for an exciting seminar by Stuart Nelson, MD - Clinical Professor at George Washington University, Department of Clinical Leadership & Research and Department of Internal Medicine.

Topic: Making Medication Information Computable and Interoperable

Background: Dr. Nelson will review past and current efforts to make medication information readily available, computable, and interoperable. The talk will range from NDC assignments through RxNorm and DailyMed to the present attempts to make indications computable, including his own efforts begun at UNM.

Learning Objectives – At the end of the session, learners will be able to:

1. Describe the purpose and practice of assigning RxNorm names to medications.
2. Describe what is included in a drug label.
3. Create a timeline of medication information availability and computability efforts.

Please email TaWheeler@salud.unm.edu to request Zoom info.