Supporting SNAPP: Accessing New Zealand Medicines Terminologies With FHIR Terminology Services

A guest post from Peter Jordan – author of the Patients First Terminology server that will be available for use at SNApp, and frequent HL7 FHIR Connectathon attender…

Take it away Peter…

As those developing healthcare applications for the local market are well aware, and overseas developers preparing for the ‘SNAPP’ event at the upcoming SNOMED conference in Wellington, are becoming aware, New Zealand has its own medicines terminology. Interacting with this terminology – broadly known at the NZ Universal List of Medicines (NZULM) – is one of the many challenges facing SNAPP participants.

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