Re: [Gnumed-devel] Clarificaation re 'pretty crappy' mims stuff in Asia

[Richard Terry]

Just interested, because I know that the people who wrote MimsScript were 
developing a hospital based system - I was wondering if it had evolved, 
because at one stage, as mentioned they were pushing MimsSCript in Asia.

Richard

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:02 am, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> For the record: No connection between MIMS Australia and the
> Australian hospital information system in use at Chiang Mai
> University was intended nor suspected.
>
> Sebastian only referred to both things being in concurrent
> use there.
>
> Karsten
>
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:54:46AM +1100, Richard wrote:
> > Be more specific about 'pretty crappy' and the 'source of information'.
> >
> > Mims drug data and associated decision support products are extremely
> > good.
> >
> > What is not good IMHO was 'MImsScript' - a failed australian GP software
> > program which I have vague recollections may have escaped into Asia some
> > years ago. It was written by a canberra company, and Mims became
> > historically associated with it. When the french parent company pulled
> > the pin on the software, Mims dropped it and it is no longer used here.
> >
> > They may have been involved with hospital software of course, and there
> > may be hospital software I'm not aware of, but don't knock their drug and
> > interaction data which is top rate.
> >
> > The interaction data BTW was compiled/maintained by the medical
> > pharmacologists at Newcastle here for some time, though I don't know
> > where it is sourced now.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:23 pm, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > > Yeah it's pretty crappy. Looks like they had a hard time adapting it to
> > > CMUs need. There is all kind of wierdness all over the program.
> > >
> > > On Monday 28 February 2005 18:01, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > > > > Here in Thailand Mims seems to be a preffered source of information
> > > > > as well.
> > > >
> > > > I remember when I was there they got a new hospital
> > > > information system from AU.
> > > >
> > > > Karsten
> >
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