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Code System Healthcare openly published

Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States....

US National Library of Medicine, from their own opening paragraph

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Model Details
Steward US National Library of Medicine
Origin United States national body
Layer Code System
Domain Healthcare
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Promoted from the public BARTOC registry, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 4/4. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Open
Assessed 33.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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