Our datastructure should support our own data content if we have to move off
First DB. We do this because there is a lot of errors with the First DB data
and besides, I believe there should be smaller databases for different user
groups (e.g. a GP formulary - about 100-200 drugs tops). But it takes a bit
of infrastructure to start that project and we just use what the government
gives us.

David

David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Midgley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: OSCAR update, was Re: Medical open source in Malaysia


> On Friday 03 May 2002 02:38, Dr. David H Chan wrote:
> > Does anyone see any problem with the Open Source licence I've got right
> > now? https://209.61.188.77:8443/oscar_sfhc/index.html#
>
> I can't see it from here.  It might be my proxy though, any special reason
> for port 8443?
>
> > the First
> > DataBank database is licensed via the Ministry of Health in Ontario. I
am
> > not sure how much that will cost if you choose to use that database.
>
> Presumably First DB would be willing to talk to any government about
> providing content, and if the licence they adopted was prepiad to any
> registered medical practitioner in the country then that would save a lot
of
> trouble and some expense...
>
> It would imply an interface (in general for GP software) that was apable
of
> being quickly modified to use a different prescribing data source, since
> otherwise the free software is getting tied to a proprietary system.
>
> As a general idea, a drug data server working to the clincial software
over a
> socket +/- XML or even web service (not that they are ready yet)
connection
> would be quite logical, but possibly a bit slow.
>
> I don't know if the ontological or archetypical descriptions that would
make
> a genericisable interface between programs for that have been produced
yet.
>
> If the default assumption was that they would be on different computers
then
> it would be OS agnostic, and the possibility of a formulary box that is
> supplied, sits on the network, and is updated and managed from teh HQ of
the
> company that provide that service begins to be attractive.
>
>
> --
> >From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley
> http://www.defoam.net/
>

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