Why is It Taking So Long to Have a Useable and Complete Medicines Terminology? NEHTA is Just Dragging the Chain On This. - medical center information, medical center, health care, disease, medical journal

The following announcement appeared a day or so ago. NEHTA announces the availability of Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT) Release 2.11 28 May 2010 RELEASE NOTE AMT Statement of Purpose The Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT) has been developed to be fit for the purpose of unambiguously identifying for clinicians and computer systems, all Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) identified ‘Registrable’ medicines marketed in Australia, and is therefore available to be represented in acute sector clinical information systems for the following activities: • Prescribing • Recording • Review • Supply • Administration • Communication of the above in a Discharge Summary While systems developers and end users might choose to deploy AMT or information generated from AMT enabled systems for purposes other than those described, no assessment with regards to fitness for purpose has been made by NEHTA. NEHTA Announces the Availability of Australian Medicines…

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