James Reeve wrote: > NPS is also investigating the feasibility of offering drug interaction > decision support via a Web service, using the drug interaction reference > source identified by the expert panel. The Web service would be > maintained by NPS, while the drug interaction information would continue > to be maintained by the developers of the information. By offering drug > interaction information as a Web service, NPS hopes to create an > opportunity for interested vendors to link prescribing or dispensing > software directly to a single source of quality drug interaction > information. Users can then choose whether they use existing drug > interaction decision support, or use the content delivered by NPS (or > both).
Hmmm, wouldn't such a Web service be predicated on standard way of identifying the drug in question (either via a code or via a canonical version of its generic name), and a standard way of expressing the dose (some interactions are dose-dependent, no?) and duration or therapy? Forgive my ignorance, but does such a standard exist? If so, where? Or will the proposed NPS Web service be promulgating its own standard for such things (not necessarily a bad thing if there is otherwise a vacuum)? Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
