Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.27 version of the AMT  released by NEHTA recently. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. I can only assume that no-one else in Australia is regularly incorporating the monthly AMT releases into an application. After all this time, the download […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.26 version of the AMT  released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. I can only assume that no-one else in Australia is regularly incorporating the monthly AMT releases into an application. After all this time, the download […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.25 version of the AMT recently released by NEHTA. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. I can only assume that no-one else in Australia is regularly incorporating the monthly AMT releases into an application. After all this time, the download process […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.24 version of the AMT released by NEHTA this afternoon. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Once again, it is a pity the download process cannot be automated. Perhaps if this were the 1980s NEHTA could publish the updates (with […]

  Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.22 version of the AMT released by NEHTA this morning.   Although no mention is made in the release notes that accompany NEHTA’s release, the following interesting statements appeared in the email notification of the release:- “These references sets will support […]

Fortunately, I’m now almost old enough to have forgotten the christmas pudding ritual – helping my father cut up the suet, spread out on sheets  of newspaper on the dining room table. In those days, I was then already tall enough to also be able to peer down into the saucepan my mother used to […]

Background With the burgeoning prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Australia and many other countries, there has been an accompanying increase in blood tests for its diagnosis and treatment. One of the commonest tests used is for determining the average amount of sugar in a person’s blood over the past several months, by measuring the ratio […]

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 […]

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 […]

I started out titling this post “the getting of wisdom”, but slowly came around to acknowledge that there has been some real wisdom generated in health informatics over the years – it just seems to mysteriously dissipate like dry ice on a sunny day, simply adding to the world’s increasing entropy. People ignore it. People […]