Detailed view of a RxNorm file intake process
The rules in the next few sections are shown using RXCONSO file as an example. Each RxNorm file has similar rules associated with it.
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- Service Package
All the RxNorm file listeners belong to HCDDS service package.
- RXNCONSOListener
Source location for the above listener is configured through D_AppExtension data page. For more information, see Dynamic class referencing).
After all the RxNorm files are successfully loaded, we can use the RxNorm data for drug data Search functionality.
- Exception handling
- As we know we are using file listeners to consume the RxNorm data files, and the possibility of something going wrong always exists, we are handling those exceptions/errors encountered while saving the RxNorm drug data. These exceptions will be caught in the exception table of class PegaHC-DDS-Data-Exception.
- Running the below report gives the information about the records with the exception message along with the record number, file name, file type.
- Below is another report, which gives the summary on processed, unprocessed, and total records corresponding to a particular file.
- Users may correct the records with exceptions and import them again to prevents the data loss.
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