Medical coding training and placements in Hyderabad (1)

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MEDRA CODING
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MEDRA 

• Medical Dictionary for Regulatory
  Activities. This is clinically validated medical
  terminology used by regular  authorities in
  pharmaceutical industry during the process of
  regulations. From the pre-marketing to
  post-marketing activities, and for data entry,
  retrieval, evaluation, and presentation. MEDRA
  was developed by International Conference on
  Harmonization (ICH) used for Pharmaceuticals of
  human use.

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Organization of MEDRA dictionary

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•    The MEDRA dictionary was organized by System
  Organ Class (SOC).Medra is divided into high
  level and low level terms. The Medra dictionary
  includes Standardized Medra  Queries
  (SMQs).Grouping of terms in SMQs are used for
  medical condition.
•             Individual cases are usually coded to
  enter data for  most specific (LLT) level  The
  higher levels (HLT, HLGT and SOC) as well as SMQ
  are used for searching for organization and
  subtotaling of outputs . outputs of counts are
  usually provided at the PT level.

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Maintenance for MEDRA

• MEDRA is managed by the MSSO (Maintenance and
  Support Services Organization).
• The MSSO updates MEDRA according to request of
  existing one.
• The decisions are taken by international medical
  officers. Based on   terminology grouping
  categories.
• Updated  version of MEDRA is released twice in a
  year by MSSO.
• In march main annual release changes is done in
  HLT,LLT and PT.
• The September release typically changes contains
  only at the LLT and PT level.

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WHO and MEDRA

• Medra is of two one is implanted by WHOs Global
  Safety Database.
• Second one by WHO Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC)
  receives most of its ICSRs coded in MEDRA
• For more information once go through Medical
  coding training and placements in Hyderabad

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TOOLS  of  MEDRA

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• MedDRA comes with software tools
• Browsers (Desktop and Web-based) to review and
  search the terminology
• Medical coding training and placements in
  Hyderabad

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ACESS TO MEDRA

• Medra  is free to regulatory authorities,
  academics, healthcare providers
• Commercial organizations pay annual fee based on
  revenue/turnover
• Subscription rates have been reduced or remained
  unchanged for the past 6 years
• Special licenses for access by low revenue
  companies EMA has this in place FDA, under
  development
• Medra  Board is currently exploring other models
  to help facilitate MedDRAs use