Re: [Health-dev] Creating a local formulary / medicines product list for Tryton / GNU Health

[ronald munjoma]

Hi Emilien,

On 29 August 2014 10:03, Emilien Klein <address@hidden> wrote:

I can confirm that each country has it's own medication list

​In Zimbabwe we have the EDLIZ (Essential Drugs List and Standard Treatment Guidelines for Zimbabwe)​ [0]

PDF of the Drugs available here [1]

[0] http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js17100e/

[1] http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/documents/s17100e/s17100e.pdf

Best and Regards

Ronald Munjoma

(cf
Medication meeting I attended at a new hospital in Belgium yesterday,
compared to the hospitals I know in The Netherlands and the US).

Under what license is RxNORM released?

2014-08-29 4:49 GMT+02:00 Alvin Marcelo <address@hidden>:

> Dear all,
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> Would it help pre-loading RxNORM in GNU Health and just let the end users
> toggle on/off the subset they need/use in their locale? This has an
> advantage of convenience (there's a standard codeset pre-loaded so no need
> to load) but also the customization capability to select just those that are
> locally relevant..
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> In addition, RxNORM has a lot of other features that can be useful in the
> long run for other use cases beyond inventory..(such as adverse drug
> reaction)..
>
> My two cents :)
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> alvin
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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM, address@hidden
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts Emilien, I think I might have the answer at last!
>>
>> It
>> has become apparent to me that each country - and sub-regions of countries
>> -
>> has its own local prescribing list/medicines formulary. So that every
>> clinic /
>> hospital that uses GNU Health will need to build their own individual list
>> of
>> medication products.
>>
>> This could be made easier by supplying them with the
>> medicament data table from GNU Health - see attached ODS spreadsheet. The
>> product would need to be entered in the "Name" column.
>>
>> If Luis could add extra
>> columns to this database table then we could also include the default
>> prescribing fields for each product.
>>
>> Amoxicillin 500 mg capsules | 500 | mg |
>> oral | every 8 hours | for 7 days | 21 | capsules
>>
>> Also, the medication
>> products will first need setting up in the main "Tryton" product section
>> of GNU
>> Health before they can be "imported" into GNU Health. This could also be
>> done
>> by up loading a pre-configured spreadsheet = CSV file.
>>
>> Do you agree Luis?
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>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Andrew
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Best and Regards

Ronald Munjoma

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