New Zealand Medicines Terminology Recommendation Report
Published: October 2009
A medicines terminology standardises the identification, naming, and describing of medicine information. It is used to identify medicine components, therapeutic groups, and the relationships between them.
The report recommended the adoption and adaptation of the SNOMED-CT based Australian Medicines Terminology the best way forward for the New Zealand Medicines Terminology (NZMT). The report also recommended that a formal project be set up to establish the terminology in several stages and that the project should be governed by NZ based experts with formal linkages to the body responsible for the Australian Medicines Terminology.
The New Zealand Universal List of Medicines has been published in accordance with the recommendations in this report. http://www.nzulm.org.nz/
