Re: [Gnumed-devel] MimsAnnual Data is not prescribing data remember

[Richard Terry]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:03 am, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:32, you wrote:
> > iii) Does MIMS also sell granular data usable for prescribing, making
> > it any part of the appeal to work with "MIMS' data structure" i.e.
> > does MIMS offer an extended structure pertinent to prescribing,
> > causing some within gnumed to want to work toward being MIMS-ready?
>
> Most Australian software packages use MIMS for exactly that purpose.
> My main criticism of it is that it is purely brand oriented without
> offering any generic information - but yes, those subscribing to MIMS get
> up to date and complete prescribing information as supplied both by the
> public health system (PBS data) and the drug manufacturers, including a
> fairly
> comprehensive interactions database
>
> Horst

Also MIMS are doing much work on integrating decision support into their 
system - they have drug-drug drug-disease interactions as well.

Richard