Drug Lookup button

Day-to-Day Users
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aperezcrespo wrote on Thursday, March 20, 2008:

Hi folks
  Is this still working?  I dont get any results from this.
In my Apache Error log I have this and I dont kno if its related.
PHP Notice:  Constant SMARTY_DIR already defined in /srv/www/htdocs/openemr/library/classes/Controller.class.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost:81/openemr/controller.php?prescription&lookup

Thanks
Alfonso

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mike-h30 wrote on Friday, March 21, 2008:

I am running OpenEMR-2.8.3 and it never worked for me.  I installed OpenEMR-2.8.3 in December 2007.  I am curious as to what others are doing for drug look up if this is broken.  Are others just typing in the medications manually?

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aperezcrespo wrote on Friday, March 21, 2008:

From the looks of these two threads I guess that OEMR should switch to another drug lookup database.  Maybe something like what rod did with the ICD9 database download script?  This way the database can be local and not require internet access.

Take a look at this…there are probably others but a quick google for "Free drug database" gave me this.
They also make note of other items which have been discussed here:
"which includes over 30,000 medications by NDC classification and includes drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions."

Thanks
Alfonso

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aperezcrespo wrote on Saturday, March 22, 2008:

Whoops, my bad
  quick google for "opensource drug database"  and the first one on the search is
http://www.e-mds.com/solutions/drug_database/drugdb.html

I also noticed this on LinuxMedNews
http://linuxmednews.com/1079706637/index_html

Thanks
Alfonso

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markleeds wrote on Monday, March 24, 2008:

I have built a drug database based on my own prescribing.  It slowed me down a little for a few months in the beginning since everything new had to be entered.  For the past year, I have very rarely added any new entries.

I use CAMOS to categorize and store my drug data.  I also generate my prescriptions directly from that form.

However your drug data is stored, this seems to be the most practical way to do it.  Physicians only prescribe a small subset of the entire collection of prescription medications.

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aperezcrespo wrote on Thursday, March 27, 2008:

Hi
  I tried getting some of the providers to use CAMOS, but they didn’t like it.   They found it to be too complex.   They have gotten use to using the Drug lookup button.  Do we have or will we have solution for this?

Thanks
Alfonso

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aperezcrespo wrote on Thursday, March 27, 2008:

Hi
  Yeah its me again on the same topic.  Here’s a different database and this one even has a downloadable.
This is the Primary Drug Search Page
http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/database/Default.htm
This is one of the search engines
http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/database/docs/queryndctn.htm

And this is where the database is downloadable from.  It has various files that could probably be uploaded and sorted into some sort of usable form.
http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/ziptext.zip

Could this become the RXLIST.com replacement?

Thanks
Alfonso

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voipbound wrote on Sunday, August 31, 2008:

Can you provide an example of how you did it.  I see the Atenolol example but wonder what is going on there in the background.  i read the help and readme of CAMOS but it is chinese to me.

I wonder if one can build a form with radio button for selection.

TIA

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cfapress wrote on Tuesday, September 09, 2008:

Hi All,

In our Agency I’ve resorted to using an interal drug database lookup. It’s not perfect and currently still experimental. The source of drug names comes from the FDA Orange Book:

http://www.fda.gov/cder/orange/obreadme.htm

Since I’m just a techno-weenie and not skilled with drug names I don’t know if this will be a good solution but it’s been better than trying to use the lookup function when it was tied with an outside source.

Jason