Re: [Gnumed-devel] OpenSource drug database

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Samstag 13 Februar 2010 00:21:20 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:37:39PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > 2) http://www.oscarcanada.org/oscar-users/drugref
> 
> Original drugref (the concept) and drugref-in-Oscar shares
> about as much as the name.
> 
> However, the DPD drug data is the best openly available
> quality that I am aware of. Not sure anymore about the
> licensing, I believe it said something about Crown Copyright
> or something.
> 
> > b) is there an interface which GNUmed can use to talk to drugref ?
> 
> Supposedly there's a web service.
> 
> It'd be a *really* worthwhile thing to get the drugref
> database going on a machine to the database of which I could
> have access to to explore the structure.

Do you need it working or a database dump. Someone could install Oscar and do 
a database dump.

Sebastian