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Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML
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Horst Herb |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML |
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:56:31 +1100 |
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:00, Ian Haywood wrote:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ioe
>
> This looks very interesting. Especially as I don't recognise the data as
> coming from drugref.org. Where is this data from? What is its licence?
> These questions are all-important if it is to be of use to drugref.org or
> gnumed.
This looks like a BNF (British National Formulary) data excerpt; maybe from
the Mercy ships or WHO EDF data sets which are loosely based on the BNF?
PS to all: sorry for the delay - Jay Gallagher (from OSCAR) and I are working
full steam on releasing the new drugref datasets and software; I made a
conceptual change (yet again) which required some data mangling, but we are
almost done.
We stared day before yesterday uploading the first bits and pieces to CVS -
our "ATC dictionary" which allows to match drug/class/brand/concept names to
one or more ATC codes for the purpose of decision support (e.g.
interactions), and a cute functional web interface to manually match
unmatched terms. Plan is to release every day whatever we find already
functional under the new concept.
Main changes:
- all data is now stored in (mostly) it's original format instead of imported
in a monolithic drugref database
- the monolithic drugref database survives in it's current form as the free
core dataset, unpolluted by possible 3rd party copyrights
- all "external" data lives in separate namespaces (schemas) making it
possible to host them either within the same database as the drugref core, or
in separate database (systems) if necessary or practical.
- all databases (both "external" and "core" are accessible via one single
drugref API
- the drugref API is extremely simplified, I'll explain in an extra email how.
- there is a drugref service server, which acts like a discovery service for
available databases
Why all this? - It allows using both proprietary, semi-proprietary,
license-restricted and free data sources to coexist and to be accessed in a
single consistent way. It also makes database maintenance / updates much,
much easier than before. It will prevent proprietary providers from making
malicious claims that we "steal" their information for integration within the
core. E.g. "MIMS" will be provided as the full and unaltered MIMS via drugref
API, and MIMS data will not be altered or mixed with non-MIMS data.
The discussions at the Hawaii conference, especially with IP lawyers of which
several were present, made it clear that this step was absolute necessary
lest we end up in never-ending court battles.
Done (as in you can really tick it off):
- import of *all* drug interaction data from the Holbrook tables (Thanks to
the OSCAR team under David Chan).
- import of the full & newest WHO essential drug formulary (a few glitches
still have to be ironed out manually, but don't affect functionality)
- import of all WHO interaction data
- import of all WHO renal/ hepatic impairment & dosage data
- import of all WHO breastfeeding data
- import of Australian PBS data as provided by HIC
- import of Canadian DPD database
- import of MIMS annual and MIMS abbreviated into separate databases, and
about 80% of the work done for the new drugref API to access it's *full*
content / functionality (you can prescribe with it is it is right now the
same way as you would use it from MDW)
Horst
- [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Irtza Sharif, 2005/02/02
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Ian Haywood, 2005/02/02
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML,
Horst Herb <=
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Karsten Hilbert, 2005/02/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Horst Herb, 2005/02/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Karsten Hilbert, 2005/02/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, E Dodd, 2005/02/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Horst Herb, 2005/02/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] pharm information as XML, Karsten Hilbert, 2005/02/08