Re: [Gnumed-devel] developing packs of Consumable substances / medications

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-06-02, at 12:40 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> The key principle for data packs needs to be that they must
> only provide passive data and not any custom scripts GNUmed
> needs to run on their behalf.

Not sure what is meant here, because the data will need to have a way to get 
into GNUmed.

Can the above be restated as:

no matter the original source, each member of any family of data packs (coding 
systems, medications etc) will need to have been transmogrified from its source 
into a consistent data construct (say, an sql file) and

no matter the original source, the import into GNUmed shall have to be 
manageable by running a standard GNUmed script "per family of coding packs" so 
that for example, the GNUmed script that would import Canadian medications 
would be the same script as would import German or French medications except 
only for where the script is being pointed to?

-- Jim