Research and applications: MedXN: an open source medication extraction and normalization tool for clinical text

Sunghwan Sohn, Cheryl Clark, Scott R. Halgrim, Sean P. Murphy, Christopher G. Chute, Hongfang Liu

Abstract: Objective We developed the Medication Extraction and Normalization (MedXN) system to extract comprehensive medication information and normalize it to the most appropriate RxNorm concept unique identifier (RxCUI) as specifically as possible.