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Australian Medicines Terminology browser update

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 … Continue reading

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Australian Medicines Terminology update

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 … Continue reading

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Building on the RIGHT foundations

I have, on a number of occasions over the past decade,  tried to explain the importance of building software, systems, national infrastructure, etc. on the right foundations. Other people who do this in the e-health arena often talk purely about … Continue reading

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Australian Medicines Terminology Browser update for AMT Release 2.24

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 … Continue reading

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Australian Medicines Terminology Upgrade

  Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.23 version of the AMT released by NEHTA yesterday. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Once again, it is a pity the download process … Continue reading

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Australian Medicines Terminology – April 2011

  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 … Continue reading

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Surfing the PCEHR Waves

Well, it’s just a little over 14 months till the launch of Australia’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR). And we have already seen two ‘waves’ of grant funded ‘implementations’ announced by Health Minister Nicola Roxon. The PCEHR draft ‘Concept of … Continue reading

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Australian Medicines Terminology – March 2011 Release

Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.21 version of the AMT released by NEHTA a few days ago. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. The latest NEHTA release includes a useful Refset … Continue reading

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Inching towards standardised pathology messages

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 … Continue reading

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A problem that can’t be sugar coated

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 … Continue reading

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