Re: [Gnumed-devel] AMH

[richard terry]

I had a talk to the lady at AMH this week. By the sounds of it the 
information they supply is not up to the standard that ordinary GP's in 
Australia would need. She was friendly and informative and will also send me 
some data to look at.

The interaction stuff which I think is critical has not reached a useable 
point, nor have they decided on a structure for it.

I still think that if we are going to get ordinary GP's here we need to use 
the MIMS data for a foresable number of years, and presumably similar 
datasets for overseas countries which have access to good quality data.

I don't think gnuMed will ever get up without a good core drug data source 
and script writer.

I've been following the debate on the drug database and when can try and find 
time I'll throw in a few comments.

Regards

Richard

On Saturday 21 September 2002 9:26 pm, you wrote:
> I had a talk today with somebody from the AMH (Australian Medical
> Handbook). They are prepared to cooperate; my suggestion was that our users
> would subscribe their drug information directly from them, and we just
> provide an import module for it - and they seem to like that suggestion.
>
> For those who do not know the AMH: it is an *independend*, generic,
> non-brand-based peer reviewed drug database. Ethically far more acceptable
> than MIMS, though MIMS would have the benefit of a good drug interaction
> database as well. Nice to have a choice, but I will focus development on
> AMH for my part.
>
> They told me their data format currently is SGML, not quite normalized yet
> but getting there. Should make importing a lot easier, I am looking forward
> to the promised smaple chapters they'll send me. Hope to get permission to
> use a sample chapter or two for demo purposes.
>
> Horst
>
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