Dear all, 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..
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 :) alvin ------ Alvin B. Marcelo 69:c3:58:b9:43:60:af:6b:96:d5:87:11:2a:6d:28:01 On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> 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? > > > Regards > > Andrew > > > > > > > >
