I can confirm that each country has it's own medication list (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 <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
