Hi Emilien,
On 29 August 2014 10:03, Emilien Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > I can confirm that each country has it's own medication list In Zimbabwe we have the EDLIZ (Essential Drugs List and Standard Treatment Guidelines for Zimbabwe) [0] PDF of the Drugs available here [1] [0] http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js17100e/ [1] http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/documents/s17100e/s17100e.pdf Best and Regards Ronald Munjoma (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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- Best and Regards Ronald Munjoma +263 775 625 283, +263 776 444 309
