Australian Medicines Terminology browser update
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 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
Bags of problems
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 … Continue reading
New SNOMED CT-AU online browser
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 … Continue reading
The squandering of wisdom
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 … Continue reading