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/ >
