On Thursday 19 July 2007 4:24 am, Michael Christie wrote: > Dear All, > May I beg your comments? > We are considering moving from Locum to Best Practice. > Apparently the third party database people tell me they can transfer all > the data from Locum to BP, how well I don't know. > One biggish problem is that Locum uses MIMS drug database which we are > happy with, and BP uses APPCo. > So as far as I know the migrating of the Pts drug history and current > medication may mean just a document with a list of medications in the > letters section of BP, not really putting the current medications into > BP that can be straight away prescribed. > Also current allergies which uses MIMS Interact, probably won't work on > the new package as well as that drug database is different. > If we used a package that had MIMS as a database my guess is that the > Current Meds and allergies would come straight across to the new package. > What comments do my colleagues have re the above? > Rgds > Michael Christie > > ____
You're right, the change of drug databases would be a problem. You effectively "lose" part of the patient record. Great, eh? jh -- I turned to my guide but just as I feared The preaching began so I...disappeared To a tiny door with a golden sign That magic place of great renown Split Enz - Walking Down A Road (P Judd, T Finn) _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
