An installation of the Unified Medical Language System® RxNorm dataset. Part of the SMART on FHIR Cumulus Project
For more information, browse the documentation.
In order to use RxNorm, you'll need to get an API key for access from the National Library of Medicine, which you can sign up for here.
You can then install this module by running pip install cumulus-library-rxnorm.
This will add an rxnorm target to cumulus-library. You'll need to pass your
API key via the --umls-key CLI flag, or set the UMLS_API_KEY environment variable
to the key you received from NIH.
We download a file from NIH, extract it, create parquet files for Athena, and then upload it.
We try to preserve some of those artifacts along the way to make rebuilds faster. If you need
to force recreation from scratch, the --force-upload CLI flag will handle this.
Note: This study is explicitly namespaced in its own schema, rxnorm. Make sure your
database is not using this schema for another use. Do not create tables inside this
schema by another means.
The cumulus-library-rxnorm study is provided as a convenience to install the
UMLS RxNorm dataset, but is not shipped with said dataset. It will
require an API key to download the data from NIH directly.
As a reminder, the RxNorm terms of service provides several restrictions on this usage of this data (including distributing the dataset). When you sign up for a UMLS key, you are assuming responsibility for complying with these terms, or an alternate licensing agreement with the owners of the RxNorm data if you are provided with one.
This product uses publicly available data courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; NLM is not responsible for the product and does not endorse or recommend this or any other product.
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