[Gnumed-devel] Implementing drugref

[J Busser]

Would OSCAR McMaster, for actual clinical use, intend to call 
(interface with) the *primary* drugref server, or would the OSCAR 
people download and run drugref software & databases from a central 
OSCAR server, or would each clinical practice download and run 
drugref from their own server?

Would these servers (other than the primary drugref server) be "mirrors"?

Would participating institutions, facilities, government bodies etc 
that may be willing to contribute their formularies to drugref do so 
to the primary drugref server, and would clones or mirrors of drugref 
"subscribe" to any updates?

In British Columbia, patient eligibility for their drug costs to be 
covered depends on what is covered by the public system and, within 
this, depends on their age (children or senior citizens), whether 
they are on income support like welfare and a few other factors. But 
there are additional determinants of whether and how much patients 
pay e.g. whether they are aboriginal, or refugees, or military, or in 
prison ;-) or members of certain police forces (all these costs, if I 
am correct, being covered by a federal rather than provincial 
systems) or covered by employers' or private programs etc.

If I interpreted Horst's email correctly, supposing a regional 
government (like mine) wished to serve its public system formulary to 
doctors. Suppose that other agencies would be willing to make theirs 
available, too. Could it be a good choice for government to install 
and serve drugref to hold the government's own formulary, as well as 
others if freely contributed, thereby making these available to 
doctors to interact with through a single interface?

Is this something that Thilo's user interface project would assist?