Re: [Gnumed-devel] CCHIT - medications

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:10:11PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> The system shall provide the ability to access and review medication 
> information (such as patient education material or drug monograph). This may 
> reside within the system or be provided through links to external sources. 
> 
> Does our German database support calling medication monographs in their 
> interface ?

It does.

> If not it might be legal to import the information into the GNUmed system for 
> every one drug prescribed.

Wherefrom if it does not ?

> As it will not be provided to 3rd parties but rather stored for internal 
> review it might be legal to import the monograph for the prescribed drugs ?

It certainly sounds legal to the non-lawyer. Whether it is
is another matter. However, it is not possible - the
external source Gelbe Liste does not give access to that
even though it does contain the information.

Karsten
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