Introduction
What the IMO® Precision Normalize API does, and when to reach for it.
Clinical data arrives messy. The same condition shows up as chest pain, CP,
R07.9, and Thoracic pain depending on which system produced it. Downstream
analytics, quality measures, and risk models all need one canonical answer.
Precision Normalize resolves input terms or codes to IMO lexicals — common, clinically validated identifiers — and returns comprehensive mappings to the standard industry code systems your other systems already speak.
The two engines
Clinical domains
How a request is shaped
Every call is a batch: one request carries up to 300 records, each with
its own record_id so you can correlate results back to your rows.
client_request_id— required. Your own identifier for the batch; echoed back in the response and useful when quoting a request to support.preferences— optional matching controls. See Normalizing terms and codes.requests[]— the records. Supplyinput_termfor term-based matching orinput_code+input_code_systemfor code-based matching.
Code-based matches always return a score of 1 and at most one lexical.
Term-based matches return every lexical scoring at or above your threshold,
ranked highest first.