Re: [Gnumed-devel] recording allergy details

[Ian Haywood]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:41:21AM +1000, richard terry wrote:
> Karsten,
> section and doing the data entry, defining what we need there, saving it back 
> to the database and recalling it. However once again NO DRUG DATABASE means 
> the whole thing falls over.
> 
> Remember that much of the internals of allergy handling is done by the 
> program 
> tansparently to the user. Most of the time we will be using a class code 
> clinked to the drug database, occasional linking to  drug/disease database, 
> and occasionally in vaccination section eg egg allergy.
> 
The current  drugref.org database has a list of all PBS drugs, names and
ATC codes, enough for linking in to other databases. I got the data from
some HIC technician, I told him what I was using it for, they didn't
seen to mind at all. (See, HIC *are* useful for something after all ;-)

I also plan to write an Python module to make it easy to query the
database (this could also form a XML-RPC service)

Ian