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. […]

Despite recent mention of  collaboration in e-health agendas, we still seem to be seeing old silos perpetuate or even new silos being erected in Australia. Why is this so? I think it is because we often don’t recognise a silo until we bump into it personally. Even the rush to embrace e-health is  itself, in […]

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 […]

Healthbase has provided an online AMT browser to help people explore the Australian Medicines Terminology, which is a key component of Australia’a national e-health infrastructure. NEHTA’s own distribution of the AMT is difficult to download and explore for casual users. NEHTA has made no attempt to give curious or non-technical people an easy way to […]