promise-based interface to RXNAV to access RxNorm and other interesting medical information


Keywords
rxnav, rximage, rxnorm, rxterms, drugs, First Databank, GCN_SEQNO, HIC_SEQN, SNOMED, HCPCS, images, drug images, drug interactions, medication images, medication, medicine, healthcare, promise, chaining api, json, xml
License
MIT
Install
npm install rxnav-api@0.0.41

Documentation

rxnav-api

notes

  • This project is continuing to be developed with new functionality added daily - be sure to check back often.
  • Released Drug Interaction API support 12/24/2018.
  • Released rximage support 12/16/2018.
  • Released Rxterms support.

description

  • promise-based api to interact with rxnav system by NLM and NIH
  • NOTE: the links here are relative to the README on the bitbucket page.
  • docs
  • examples

supports

rxnorm / rxclass / rxterms / drugInteractionApi

  • to return xml, invoke new RxnavApi().xml() and then chain subsequent calls. (e.g. new RxnavApi().xml().restfulEndpointsList())

  • by default, json is returned by the rxnav-api, but to explicitly return json, invoke new RxnavApi().json() and then chain subsequent calls. (e.g. new RxnavApi().json().restfulEndpointsList())

  • restfulEndpointsList

drugInteractionApi

rximage

  • [search - search for medication images] atorvastatin image

rxterms

rxclass

rxnorm

install / setup

 npm install rxnav-api --save

Resources

glossary / terminology

  • tty - term type

disclaimer

  • The information accessed through this API is from a government provided site. The liability for the use of this data is solely at the user's discretion.

credit

  • RxIMAGE is a product of the National Library of Medicine.