Re: [Gnumed-devel] How to get your own drug database into GNUmed

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 04:29:36PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> Might Germany or Brazil have professional doctor
> associations that would develop tables of available drugs as
> a service to their own members, for internal distribution?
> 
> I cannot see that *knowledge* of what exists, and which can be purchased:
> 
>       chemical name, brand name, strength, form
> 
> can be secret or owned, only the implementation, and if
> the association assembles its own then I can see no reason
> why it cannot freely provide it to its members (or, if the
> information is supplied by the drug companies, why it cannot
> be provided under a non-redistribution license)

While semantically true there doesn't seem to be an
understanding for such (or such a need).

Karsten
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