OCRx What is it?
OCRx is an interoperability tool created by LabTNS researchers.
OCRx is developped through the integration of drug public data:
The Drug Product Database (DPD) maintained by Health Canada
The Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD) maintained by Canada Health Infoway
This is a first version which is only focus on clinical drug description.
Packeging will be take into account in next release.
OCRx For what purpose?
Drug Identification Number (DIN), an eight-digit number, are generated for administrative purpose. The drug descriptions are mainly realise by the manufacturer (example for non-nconventional forms) and DIN code be modified for administrative reason (e.g., change in the name of the manufacturer).
The objective of OCRx is thus to:
To provide a standardized description for drugs allowing a non-ambiguous manipulation by human and computer
To improve the interoperability of drug-related information
To guarantee international compatibility by being compliant with IDMP principles
To improve drug entities recognition in free text
OCRx What is in it?
OCRx carries out a normalization of drug names
OCRx is based on a ontological structure that can be classified by usual reasoners (Fact++, Hermit or Pellet) in less than one seconde
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