Re: [Health] GNU Health Drugs and Co.

[Christoph H. Larsen]

Dear Luis,

You said: "There are other ways to do a "batch input" via front-end, for
example, but that will only last for your current DB." As long as those
batch inputs survive trytond and gnu health updates, I would be quite
happy. The customisations are, certainly in the drug arena, rather
site-specific.
If I decide to stick the localised drug list and drug categories into
the .xml format recommended by you, how will they be recognised? Just by
sitting the health/data/ directory? I am evidently about to learn more
about GNU Health's internals - thinking Bika Health integration ;-)!
Thanks!
Chris


On 13/02/12 15:00, Luis Falcon wrote:
> Dear Chris
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Christoph H. Larsen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Dear Crowd,
>>
>> A couple of questions:
>> I have the list of drugs, which is rather specific for our medical
>> facility here in Kabul (keeping everything generic, naturally!), so the
>> List of Essential Drugs is of limited value. Is there any way to
>> bulk-import a file with drugs (or later: lab tests) into the system?
>> Without bulk import, what is the best way to enter any additional drugs
>> - by chucking them into a separate drug category, and adding them one by
>> one?
> 
> I highly recommend to encode in xml format and place it in the server,
> similar as to the what we do in the case of "WHO essential medicines".
> There are other ways to do a "batch input" via front-end, for example,
> but that will only last for your current DB.
> 
> Take a look at the file
> "health/tryton/health/data/WHO_medicaments.xml" as an example.
> 
> Same as for the categories... check the file
> "health/tryton/health/data/medicaments_categories.xml"
> 
> One more thing... I highly recommend to create a separate module with
> all the localization and specifics of your health center (reports,
> views, methods, access rights...), so it does not interfere with the
> main modules.
> 
> Best
> 
>> I notice that each substance inside the list of essential drugs may
>> represent several pharmacological preparations and concentrations,
>> a.k.a. variants in ERP speak. Wouldn't it be be better to define
>> separate products for, for instance mepivacaine 2% 5 ml and 2% 50 ml? As
>> far as I can see, this is not currently done from within the drug list...
>> Also, as for drug details, is there any FLOSS source we could use to
>> copy/paste further drug details? Copy paste would be ideal. The BNF is
>> unfortunately copyrighted...
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Bests,
>>
>> Chris
>>
> 
> 
> 

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