Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.20 version of the AMT released by NEHTA a few days ago. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Pity the download process still cannot be automated. Perhaps if this were the 1980s NEHTA could publish the updates (with sensible filenames!) […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.19 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade no longer detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and retired descriptions, as described in the NEHTA Release note. Deprecated versions 2.17 and 2.18 only […]

It seems that there are very few people involved in health information standards that are able to discern the difference between a thing in the singular and things in the plural! Perhaps many people can discern the difference but just don’t realize  how difficult it is for computers to discern the difference. So often I […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.18 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and retired descriptions, as described in the NEHTA Release note. Deprecated versions earlier than 2.16 will not […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.17 version released by NEHTA today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia).  All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade also detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and retired descriptions, as described in the NEHTA Release note. Deprecated versions earlier than 2.16 will […]

  Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.16 version released by NEHTA today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia).  All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade now also detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and retired descriptions, as described in the NEHTA Release note. Deprecated versions will not […]

An online browser of the healthcare terminology managed by NEHTA and proposed for future use in clinical information systems, clinical registries and research has been developed by Andrew Patterson and is available at: Federation Health . It currently includes browsing and searching of SNOMED CT-AU and the Australian Medicines Terminology. My understanding is that this is […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.15 version released by NEHTA today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia).  All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Pity the download process cannot be automated. Perhaps if this were the 1980s NEHTA could publish the updates (with sensible filenames!) via an FTP service. […]

There has been a long held view, even mantra, amongst health informaticians that data should be “structured” and  “coded” if it is to be harnessed for clinical decision support, adverse event prevention, and for research purposes. One trouble is, the concept of “coded” data means different things to different people. Australia was at the international […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.14 version released today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia).  All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Pity the download process cannot be automated. Perhaps if this were the 1980s NEHTA could publish the updates via an FTP service. I guess e-health has a […]