The NZ Medicines Terminology (NZMT) is the standard code system used to identify each medicine in the NZ Universal List of Medicines (NZULM) .

We source NZMT content once per month from the latest NZULM release to enable NZHTS to serve simple NZMT lookups.

Below are details you need to run NZMT lookup queries via FHIR API.

NZMT code system 

The NZMT code system set has the canonical URI http://nzmt.org.nz 

NZMT value sets 

We have created a value set for each of the seven NZMT concept types. 

  • Medicinal Product (MP) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-mp 
  • Medicinal Product Unit of Use (MPUU) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-mpuu 
  • Medicinal Product Pack (MPP) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-mpp 
  • Trade Product (TP) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-tp 
  • Trade Product Unit of Use (TPUU) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-tpuu 
  • Trade Product Pack (TPP) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-tpp 
  • Containered Trade Product Pack (CTPP) value set https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-ctpp 

NZMT concept maps 

We have created maps between these NZMT concept types. 

  • TP to MP map https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ConceptMap/nzmt-tp-mp 
  • TPUU to MP map https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ConceptMap/nzmt-tpuu-mp 
  • CTPP to MPUU map https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ConceptMap/nzmt-ctpp-mpuu 

Example queries 

Look up the NZMT entry for amifampridine 10 mg tablet:

  • https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/CodeSystem/$lookup?system=http://nzmt.org.nz&code=10006151000116107

Look up the NZMT entry for paracetamol

  • https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/$expand?url=https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/nzmt-mp&filter=paracetamol