I need some input about the drug table.
Building out this Weno project and we have to develop a drug table for the program that is populated from a source that is not Weno. They pointed to the NLM.
I found a thread where Rod built a PEARL script some time ago. I am not sure if it was for prescription drugs or not. The link above goes to the daily updates that NLM puts out. Writing a script to download and import this daily using a cron job. The script will parse throught the zip file and grab the xml and import the data into the table.
My question is about the path. Is this the right source and will it be useful to the OpenEMR project?
Any suggestion?
The prescription interface is in need of revamping. I am open to suggestions. The first thing that was done was to increase the size of the modal. So that there will be room to add more stuff. The template layout should change.
Daily refresh may be overkill since new drugs take weeks if not months to be available for general prescription after regulatory approval. They do get added to various databases during late clinical trials.
Another option may be to embed the java applet or API (RESTful or SOAP) from nih.gov with local copy as a backup.