Re: [Gnumed-devel] AMH

[Hilmar Berger]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Horst Herb wrote:

> richard terry wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't know what gives you this impression. Have you ever had a look at 
> the AMH? IMHO, it is a completely different league - comparable 
> difference as between a detailed sales pamphlet (MIMS) and a reference 
> text book (AMH).
In this regard AMIS is rather like MIMS - a quite comprehensive collection
of information on all available drugs. AMH seems to be a mixture of drug
database and guide on pharmcaotherapy. Maybe part of it should be handled
by the guidelines browser ?

> MIMS will always be an option for those inclined to that type of 
> information. This is why I want to design our drug backend in a way that 
> it allows multiple reference databases in parallel. However, for my 

I'm just implementing a more a less general interface to drug databases,
so it should be quite easy to look up information in more than one
database. However, if more than one database is available, should all of
them be accessed through service 'pharmaceutica' or would you like to use
different services which would allow for databases on different hosts ?

Hilmar