On Thursday 19 July 2007 09:52, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > How much work do you have to do to do minor monthly drug updates & 4 > monthly larger drug updates ? And at what cost do you get the drug changes > from MIMS or APPCo - ie. is it cost effective for you to buy this from > them directly ? Or does Promedicus supply it to you ? Or don't you bother > updating the drug database ? Why I'm asking this, is if there is enough > interest from GP's, we need to supply this info.
I am getting the PBS information directly from the PBS site in XML format, and update my drug database automatically with a script - requires no user interaction I haven't updated my MIMS database for a while - would need to re-subscribe, but I am looking for alternatives. Yes, Promedicus would provide the MIMS updates monthly (the update used to go like this: copy single file into specified directory, log out all clients, rename file, log in again, done) but I have not eneterd a contract with Promedicus because I disliked their restrictive terms which would have prevented me from continuing to write my own user interface. I probably could subscribe directly with MIMS, but I would prefer to finally incorporate support for AMH and subscribe to their data instead, or AusDI. Costs of MIMS subscription were rather modest, not an issue. ONly reason why I did not subscribe directly from them (developers license) becvause I did not want to sign their licensing terms - I am working in a competing product (drugref), and I don't want to be involved in any copyright claims lateron. For the avergae user it would simply be subscribing to Promedicus and getting the monthly hassle free updates from them - I think Liz Dodd on this ist is doing that and is quite happy with it too. If you don't have ambitions of customizing the software, that's certainly the easy way to go. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
