Re: [Health-dev] GNU Health medication / drug database design for ambulatory and hospital use

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Hi Luis

A one day conference would be a very good idea.

I think that we need 
to persuade Cedric and the Tryton project that the description and coding of a 
"product" is a lot more complicated than the current Tryton schema.

Tryton 
should allow a product to be defined as a "pack" (with a pack code - ABC123) 
that contains a number of units (with a unit code - DEF456).

It will then be 
possible to issue to customers/patients as a whole pack or a number of 
individual units (tablets / capsules / mls / reams of paper / etc).

1 pack of 
"Amoxicillin 250mg capsule x 21 capsules" (product pack code ABC123)

contains


21 units of "Amoxicillin 250mg capsule" (product unit code DEF456)

There are 
some other product definitions which (I think) need "attaching" to a product 
which seem to be missing or very difficult to find in Tryton. eg product 
maufacturer, supplier1, supplier2, supplier3 etc.

If these "challenges" can be 
solved at a Tryton level then GNU Health pack vs unit issues will be much 
easier to handle.

Regards

Andrew